Mi-Eun Kim

Korean-American pianist Mi-Eun Kim has performed on stages across the country, as well as in Europe and Asia. She is a prizewinner of the Liszt-Garrison Competition’s Liszt Award, the Corpus Christi solo prize, the International Institute for Young Musicians, Missouri Southern International Competitions and Young Arts. Festival appearances include Piano Summer at New Paltz, Gijón Piano Festival, Art of the Piano at Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music, PianoTexas, The Gilmore Keyboard Festival, and Kneisel Hall. Recent performances include the complete Beethoven solo and accompanied sonata cycle at MIT, Garth Newel Music Center, Butler University’s Beethoven @ 2020 Series, University of Michigan, Loyola University in New Orleans, and Yiin Art Hall in Busan, South Korea. She has appeared as a soloist with the Chelsea Symphony, Ann Arbor Symphony Orchestra, Kansas City Symphony and Omaha Symphony. She has given masterclasses and residencies at Gonzaga University, Sacramento State and the University of South Florida.

Mi-Eun is a highly sought-after collaborative pianist and chamber musician. She has given chamber music performances at the Jacobs School of Music, Innsbrook Institute, Atlantic Music Festival, and Shepherd School of Music. In the summers she serves collaborative piano and chamber music faculty at Center Stage Strings and is Artistic Director of Hansong Music Festival in Busan, South Korea.

In 2022, Mi-Eun joined the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Music and Theater Arts faculty, overseeing instruction for piano, chamber music and collaborative piano. She recently served as visiting professor at Loyola University in New Orleans and Hope College. She received her D.M.A., Specialist Degree and M.M. in piano performance and chamber music from University of Michigan. She holds a B.A. in history from Columbia University through the Barnard-Columbia-Juilliard Exchange.

Mi-Eun has recorded William Horne’s Sextet for Piano and Winds on the Blue Griffin label (2021).