About

Praised by international press as “a pianist who meets the highest standard of technique,” Angela Jeong Hyun Kim is one of the rising young pianists showing her versatility through colorful imagination, and intense musical expression. As a scholarship student at the Eastman School of Music, Ms. Kim received the prestigious Henry Cobos Endowed Piano Prize for demonstrating excellence in piano performance.

Ms. Kim began piano studies at the age of four, making her first public debut in her native South Korea, as the winner of the SoongEui Competition when she was nine years old. Upon turning sixteen, Ms. Kim came to the United States to continue her music studies with world-renowned pedagogue Wha Kyung Byun. During that time she toured and performed in Panama, and Guatemala, as a pianist with the New England Conservatory Youth Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Benjamin Zander. She is a frequent soloist with the Great Lakes Chamber Orchestra, MI, with performances broadcasted nationally on Interlochen Public Radio. Additionally, former GLCO Maestro, Matthew Hazelwood, invited Ms. Kim to tour Colombia as a soloist with the Filarmonica Joven de Colombia.

As an avid performer of new music, Ms. Kim had collaborated with the Callithumpian consort, an internationally recognized Boston based ensemble directed by pianist, Steve Drury. During that time, she worked closely with many influential composers including Christian Wolff, Steve Reich, Gunther Schuller, Jonathan Harvey, and Frederic Rzewski. Currently Ms. Kim collaborates with Eastman’s Musica Nova where she had recently worked with Hans Abrahamsen and Chaya Czernowin.

Ms. Kim has performed throughout the US, South America, Italy, Germany, Austria, and Korea.

Her important artistic influences include world-renowned pianists and pedagogues Russell Sherman, and Lev Natochenny. Earning academic honors, Angela completed both Bachelor, and Master degrees at the New England Conservatory of Music, as a student of Wha Kyung Byun. She has recently finished her Doctorate of Piano Performance, and Literature, at the Eastman School of Music, studying with Natalya Antonova.

When she is away from the piano, Ms. Kim enjoys many other things – cooking, reading, walking along the river, visiting museums, flower gardens, and the zoo. Some of her favorite authors include Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Arthur Conan Doyle, and Italo Calvino. She embraces the way all her activities intersect with music and that in itself becomes her main source of inspiration.

Music

SOLO

J. S. Bach
WTC I, No.1, 2, 3, 5, 6, 9, 11, 16, 21
WTC II, No.1, 2, 5, 6, 12, 15, 16
French Suites No.6 in E*
Partita No.1, 2, and 6*
Italian Concerto*
Ricercar a 3 from The Musical Offering*

Brahms
Sonata No.1 and No.2*
Op.116*and Op.117*
Schumann Variations Op.9*

Schumann
Carnaval*
Fantasiestucke
Symphonic Etudes*

Schubert
Moments Musicaux*
Impromptus Op.90*

Chopin
4 Ballads*
4 Scherzos*
Op.10 No.1, 4, 5, 7, 8, 10*, 12*
Op.25 No.1, 2, 4, 5, 6, 8, 10, 11, 12*

Frank
Prelude, choral, and fugue*

Liszt
Venezia e Napoli*
Sonata in b minor *
Dante Sonata*
Transcendental Etudes No. 8*
Etudes de Concert, S.144 No.2*
Les jeau d’eaux a la Villa d’Este

Ravel
Valses nobles et sentimentales
Jeux d’eau*

Rachmaninoff
Etudes-Tableaux Op.39 No.6*
Piano Sonata No.2*

Scriabin
Sonata No.2*
Preludes Op.11
Etudes Op.42 No.5*

Prokofiev
Piano Sonata No.3 and 7
Four Etudes for Piano Op.2

Debussy
Images Book I*

Schoenberg
3 Piano Pieces Op.11
6 little piano pieces Op.19*

Messiaen
Vingt Regards sul l’Enfant jesus
No. 1, 4, 8, 11, 15

Stravinsky-G. Agosti
Firebird Suite

CLASSICAL PIANO SONATAS

Mozart
KV 279 in C, 309 in C, 311 in D, 310 in a, 330 in C, 331 in A, 332 in F, 333 in B flat, 475 and 457 in c*, 545 in C
Beethoven
No.3, 4, 6, 7, 8*, 10, 11*, 14, 18*, 21, and 23
Haydn
Hob. XVI: 19, 23, 27, 32*, 35, 37, 42*, 49, 50, and 52

CHAMBER MUSIC

Dvorak
Piano Trio in f minor Op.65*

Mozart
Piano Trio No.2 in B flat Major and No.4 in E Major*
Complete Violin Sonatas

J. S. Bach
Sonata for violin and keyboard No.3 in E Major*

Beethoven
Piano Trio “Ghost”* and “Archduke”
Violin Sonata No.2 and No.5
Cello Sonata No.3, No.4 and No.5

Bartok
Rumanian Dances*

Schnittke
Piano Trio
Complete Violin Sonatas*
Cello Sonata*

Schumann
Piano Trio No.1 in d minor*

Schubert
Piano Trio No.1 and No.2*
Cello Sonata “Arpeggione”
Rondo Brillante in b minor*

Smetana
“From my Homeland” for Violin and Piano*

Brahms
Piano Trio No.1* and No.3*
Piano Quintet in f minor Op.34*
Cello Sonata No.1
Violin Sonata No.2 and No.3*

Ives
Piano Trio*

Webern
4 pieces for Violin and Piano Op.7 *

Janacek
Pohadka for cello and piano*

David Hollinden
Lead and Platinum* for piano and percussion

John Psathas
Matra’s Dance for piano and percussion*
Fragment for piano and vibraphone*

Katarina Miljkovis
Threads*
NK scape for piano and multimedia*

Joseph Koykker
Musica per due for piano and percussion*

Kenji Bunch
Concerto for piano trio and two percussionists*

Ensemble
Stravinsky
Petrushka*

Steve Reich (worked with composer himself)
Music for 18*
Daniel Variations*

Frederic Rzewski (worked with composer himself)
Bring them home*

John Zorn
Orphee*

Jonathan Harvey
Quantumplation*

Chaya Czernowin (worked with compose herself)
Lakes*
Upstream*

Hans Abrahamsen
Marchenbilder*

Luca Francszconi
Encore/da capo*

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