Pianist Eunyoung Kim, a virtuoso professional soloist and chamber musician, has performed in many concerts in her native Korea, the United States, Japan, and Turkey with organizations including Brockton Symphony Orchestra, International Soroptimist, International Contemporary Music Ensemble Musica Anatolia, Xanthos New Music Ensemble, The Fifth Tier New Music Ensemble, La Scena, and the Stratus Ensemble.
Ms. Kim began playing piano at the age of four, gave her first piano recital at age six, and in the same year won the national piano competition organized by The Korean Music & Art Society in Seoul. She continued playing the piano with passion and without any outside pressure. At age 15, she began studying with pianist Ha-Kyung Kim at the Sun-Hwa Arts High School in Korea. She won numerous piano competitions in Korea, including the prestigious Sam-Ik Piano Competition, and studied at the Korean National University of Arts in Seoul with Jong-Pil Lim, Kyung-Sook Lee, Dae-Jin Kim, and Choong-Mo Kang on a scholarship from the Korean Government given to the top students of the music department. After graduating, she served as the director and a piano and music theory instructor at Bon Music Academy in Korea.
Ms. Kim continued her studies in the United States at Boston University, where she earned a Master’s Degree in Piano Performance in 2003. The American National Music Honor Society, Pi Kappa Lambda, selected her as a member in that same year. She furthered her studies at Longy School of Music with Robert Merfeld, Victor Rosenbaum, Wayman Chin, and Jonathan Cohler, and in 2006 she received a Graduate Performance Diploma in both Piano Performance and Collaborative Piano Performance with distinction.
After graduation from Longy, Ms. Kim performed as a soloist at the New Hampshire Music Festival, in addition to premiering new solo and chamber works of Koray Sazlı, Çağlar Arsu, Mark Berger, Mauricio Pauly, and Gorge Grossman in the New England area. She also performed at the Kendal Music Series as a soloist, as well as in Nagoya, Japan, with the organization Internaitonal Soroptimist. She has also appeared at the Tanglewood Music Festival as well as New England Conservatory faculty concerts.
Ms. Kim was awarded prizes in both 2005 and 2006 in the International Chamber Music Ensemble Competition, and also in 2008 she was awarded the third prize in the Hugo Kauder International Piano Competition and the Glady Cauthen Award from the International Beethoven Sonata Competition in Memphis in 2009. She has been recognized for her "coherent interpretation and emotional depth" by pianist David Allen Wehr and her "uncanny, virtually unique ability to perform contemporary music” by pianist Victor Rosenbaum, who also described her as “one of the most sought-after pianists.” In reviews about Xanthos Ensemble, of which Ms. Kim has been a member since 2006, the group has been described by the New York Times as “so copiously skilled and confident”, and by the Boston Globe as "brilliant" and “stunning.”
Besides her active performance career, she has been the music director of the Boston Youth Music Ensemble, a young performance group, since 2021. She also loves teaching piano and maintains a private studio in Lexington. Massachusetts, USA.