Prof. Wonmin Kim

Assistant Professor (Teaching)

Class Type
Piano & Keyboard
Biography

Wonmin Kim, serving as Assistant Professor (Teaching) at the School of Music, CUHK-Shenzhen, is much sought-after as a versatile concert pianist and passionate chamber musician in the United States of America, South America, Asia, and Europe. She collaborated with many of today's most important artists, including Sarah Chang, Chun Wen Huang, Ilya Gringolts, Bin Huang, David Chan, Frank Huang, Chee Yun, Wolfgang Schmidt, Stefan Milenkovich, André Cazalet, Igor Ozim, and the late Robert Mann, just to name a few. She also performed Chopin's Concerto No. 1, Saint-Saëns' Concerto No. 2, Beethoven's Concerto No. 3, and Mozart's Concerto No. 20 as a soloist with major Symphony Orchestras, such as the Bern Symphony Orchestra and the Seoul Symphony Orchestra.

Wonmin Kim is a member of the Shanghai New Music Ensemble and the cofounder of the LAETUS Duo together with violinist Juyoung Kim. She has numerous times appeared in concerts with the International Sejong Soloists and in chamber music formations with members of the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, the New York Philharmonic Orchestra, the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra, the Shanghai Symphony Orchestra, and the Suzhou Symphony Orchestra. Other concert highlights include the collaboration with Igor Ozim in the World Masters Series at Kumho Art Hall (Seoul), which was also broadcast by the Korean Broadcast System, KBS, and televised by Arirang TV. Previous engagements as soloist and chamber music partner have led her to appearances in Carnegie Weill Hall, Lincoln Center Alice Tully Hall, Strathmore, Kimmel Center, Zürich Tonhalle (Switzerland), Kioi Hall (Tokyo), Seoul Art Center, Sejong Art Hall (Seoul) and Shanghai Oriental Art Center. Ms. Kim has frequently appeared on Television and Radio broadcasts like WQXR, Swiss Radio International, SRI, and the Korean Broadcast System, KBS. As a regular duo partner with violinist Wonji Kim, she released a CD recording with the Korean Broadcast System, KBS under the title Korean Musician for the 21st Century.

Wonmin Kim serves as a piano faculty at the School of Music, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen, China. Earlier, she held teaching positions at Soochow University School of Music, DePauw University School of Music, and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Previous engagements also include positions as collaborative pianist at the Juilliard School New York, where she worked closely with the Juilliard String Quartet, Itzhak Perlman, Hyo Kang, Donald Weilerstein, and the late Dorothy Delay, as well as the North Carolina School of the Arts, the Aspen Music Festival and School, the Summer Academy Mozarteum Salzburg (Austria), the Great Mountain International Music Festival and School (South Korea), and the Meadowmount School of Music. She has also served for many years as a regular member of the artist faculty of the Green Mountain Chamber Music Festival in Burlington, Vermont (U.S.A.) and the artist faculty of the Jacobs School of Music Summer String Academy, Indiana University.

Wonmin Kim is the recipient of numerous honors and awards, including Juilliard's most prestigious Vladimir Horowitz Award, with a full-tuition scholarship. She holds degrees from the Hochschule der Künste Bern (Switzerland) and The Juilliard School in New York. Her teachers include the late Jungjoo Oh, Kyung Sook Lee, Michael Studer, Jonathan Feldman, Margo Garrett, and the late Samuel Sanders.