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Music Department Faculty

Wonmin Kim

Wonmin Kim
Lecturer

Office: 2103 Kenan Music Building
Email: wk@unc.edu
Phone: 919-843-7949

Wonmin Kim (Lecturer) started her performance career in the early age of twelve performing Beethoven's Concerto No. 3 as soloist with the Seoul Symphony Orchestra. Since then, the 1st Prize winner of the Korean Daily News Piano Competition and 1st Prize winner of the Yewon Piano Competition was the soloist with major orchestras like the Bern Symphony Orchestra (Switzerland) and the Seoul Symphony Orchestra performing Chopin's Concerto in E minor, Mozart's Concerto No. 20 and Saint Sean’s Concerto No. 2.


Early in her career Ms. Kim developed a strong interest in chamber music. As the 1st Prize winner of the Korean Youth Chamber Music competition and the Orpheus Recital Competition (Switzerland) she was promoted in many chamber music concert venues, such as the Carnegie Weill Hall, Lincoln Center Alice Tully Hall, Kimmel Center, Sovereign Performance Center, Zürich Tonhalle, Kioi Hall (Tokyo), Kumho Art Hall (Seoul), Seoul Art Center, and Sejong Art Hall (Seoul). Ms. Kim appeared in concert series such as The Metropolitan Museum of Art Concert Series, the Schubert Festival (Seoul), Orpheus Concert series (Switzerland), Salzburger Schlosskonzerte (Salzburg, Austria), An Evening of Chamber Music series (Lincoln Center, New York), Soundbytes of Sejong (Samsung Experience, New York) Asian Dream (Tokyo), Tea at Two Concert Series (New York), and the Juilliard Honors Recital. Ms. Kim is in great demand as chamber music partner, in Europe, Asia, and the USA with over 100 Performances in the year 2005. She collaborated with performers such as Chee Yun, Sarah Chang, David Chan, Wolfgang Schmidt, Ryu Gotto and Cho Liang Lin.

Most recent engagements include a US tour with violinist Chuan Yun Li and the collaboration with Igor Ozim in the World Masters Series at Kumho Art Hall (Seoul) which was also broadcasted by KBS and televised by Arirang TV. Ms. Kim has frequently appeared on Television and Radio broadcasts like WQXR, the Swiss Radio International, SRI and the Korean Broadcast System, KBS. CD Recordings for the Korean Musician for the 21 Century series have been released by KBS.

Wonmin Kim is the recipient of numerous honors and awards, including Juilliard’s prestigious Vladimir Horowitz Award, the David Garvey Scholarship, and the P. & A. Shaffer Scholarship. She has participated at the Sommerakademie des Mozarteums Salzburg (Austria), the Weimar Sommerakademie (Germany), Sion Music Festival (Switzerland), in master classes with Samuel Sanders, Felix Galamir, Bernard Ringeissen and Peter Feuchtwanger. Ms. Kim holds degrees from the Konservatorium für Musik und Theater Bern (Switzerland) and The Juilliard School. Since 1999 Ms. Kim is staff collaborative pianist at The Juilliard School where she regularly works for Hyo Kang, Robert Mann, Joel Smirnoff, Masao Kawasaki, Itzhak Perlman and Donald Weilerstein. She also has been a staff member at the Great Mountains International Music Festival (Korea), the Aspen Music Festival and the Starling Foundation under the later Dorothy Delay. Ms. Kim joined the piano faculty of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in the fall of 2006.

For information regarding the classical piano area at unc, please visit: https://music.unc.edu/undergrad/Areas/piano 

 
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