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Alicia de Larrocha praised Dr. Youn-hee (Yuni) Kim’s artistry, writing: “To Youn-hee: with or without competitions, you will be a fantastic artist!” This endorsement highlights her distinguished musical sensitivity and artistry. The Peninsula Review of the Carmel International Competition further recognized her talent, describing her performance of Rachmaninoff’s Études-Tableaux, Op. 39 No. 6 in A minor as "the best performance among any other performers, live or recorded."

Born in Seoul, South Korea, and immigrating to the U.S. in 1998, Dr. Kim has garnered numerous accolades, including first prize at the 2000 Los Angeles International Liszt Competition, third prize at the Carmel International Piano Competition, and two-time grand prizes in the Music Associates Performance Award Competition in California. She was also the inaugural recipient of the Alicia de Larrocha Scholarship.In South Korea, she won first prize in the National Music Competition and third prize in the Samik Concours. Her performances have taken her to international stages, both as a soloist and with orchestras such as the New York Symphony Orchestra, the International Chamber Ensemble of Roma, L'Orchestra di Perugia in Italy, the Muenster Orchestra in Germany, and the Gangnam Symphony and Incheon Symphony Orchestra in South Korea.

Dr. Kim holds degrees from California State University Fullerton, the Manhattan School of Music, and Stony Brook University (SUNY), where she studied on full-tuition scholarships.

Her teachers have included Alfons Kontarsky, Eduardo Delgado, Philip Kawin, Christina Dahl, Nahk-jung Baek, Young-joo Hong, and Gahng-soon Lee. She has also been coached by renowned artists such as Alicia de Larrocha, Martha Argerich, Garry Graffman, Gilbert Kalish, Ilana Vered, Igor Kipnis, Louis Lortie, Natalia Troull, Seymour Bernstein, Enrique Graf, and Oxana Yablonskaya.


Since 2012, she has been a faculty member at both the John J. Cali School of Music at Montclair State University and its Extension Division. Dr. Kim also serves on the committee for the Music Educators Association of New Jersey Annual Piano Competition.

She is also a member of the Pi Kappa Lambda National Music Honor Society.

Specialization

Piano Performance
Collabolative Piano

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• Dr. Yuni Kim Homepage
• Cali School of Music Keyboard Faculty
• MSU Extension Division