Eunho Kim

Lecturer

Originally from Korea, Dr. Eunho Kim (Lecturer) has been an avid solo/chamber/orchestra performer and a devoted pedagogue in SW Ohio, NW Iowa, South Dakota, and NE Ohio. She holds BM from Seoul National University, and two MMs in Violin & Music Theory and DMA from CCM, University of Cincinnati.

As a graduate student in Cincinnati, Kim joined Dayton Philharmonic and Kentucky Symphony, and has appeared in the festival orchestras under Myung-hun Chung, Michael Tilson Thomas, and Charles Dutoit. Her academic excellence and love for tonal-music analysis also led her to pursue a second master’s degree in Music Theory.

In Iowa/South Dakota area (2005-17), she has taught in Morningside College, Northwestern College, and Dordt College, and was an Assistant Professor at University of South Dakota where she also was the violinist of Rawlins Piano Trio and the concertmaster/co-director of the no-conductor USD Chamber Orchestra. With Rawlins Piano Trio, she gave performances and masterclasses in Korea, Panama, and throughout the U.S., and presented at the national conferences of Chamber Music America and College Music Society. Their recording, Attracting Opposites: New Music for Piano Trio, was released by Azica Records in 2013, and Kim’s solo performance on the historic “King Henry IV” Amati violin at the National Music Museum was aired nationally on NPR. In addition, she was the Concertmaster of Sioux City Symphony, Associate Concertmaster of South Dakota Symphony, and the violinist for the chamber-music round of Iowa International Piano Competition, and soloed with many area orchestras.

After moving to NE Ohio in 2017, Kim continued performance career with Citymusic Cleveland (Principal Vn II & chamber-series player) and Akron Symphony, and regularly gave benefit concerts in Cleveland as the violinist of Crea Piano Trio. She taught violin and chamber music at Kent State University, and actively engaged in public music education as a guest instructor for high schools and youth orchestras.

Kim joined the string faculty of the UNC at Chapel Hill as a Lecturer after relocating to North Carolina with her family in Summer 2023. She lives in Greensboro with her musician husband Dr. Jungho Kim (Orchestra Director at UNC Greensboro), two sons, and a cockapoo.