Department of Performing and Fine Arts
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Biography A native of Los Angeles, California, Howard Kim received his early piano training from master teacher Dorothy Hwang at the R.D. Colburn School of Performing Arts. He earned his Bachelor of Arts in Piano Performance from the University of California-Los Angeles, studying under Antoinette Perry and Aube Tzerko. While completing the Master of Music and Doctor of Musical Arts degrees in Piano Performance and Literature under the tutelage of Rebecca Penneys at the Eastman School of Music, he was awarded the Performer’s Certificate. Dr. Kim has won numerous awards and honors, including 2nd Place and Audience Favorite Prize at the Josef Hofmann International Piano Competition and the Ozelle Rubenstein Award for Chamber Music at the Young Artists’ Peninsula Music Festival as part of the Colburn Piano Quintet. He has performed duo piano concerts with Canadian pianist Rebekah Jordan-Miller in New York, Florida, and Canada. As Assistant Conductor of both the Orchestra da Camera and Colburn Chamber Orchestra, he made his television debut at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion and radio debut on KUSC radio. He has been the featured soloist with the Colburn Chamber Orchestra, the Marina del Rey-Westchester Symphony Orchestra, Southeastern University Chamber Orchestra, and the Imperial Symphony Orchestra. He has served as a keyboardist and vocal coach for Opera Rochester and Southeastern Lyric Theatre, and he has conducted productions of Godspell, The Tender Land, Hansel and Gretel, and Into the Woods. He is currently the keyboardist for the Fayetteville Symphony Orchestra and has previously served as a guest lecturer at Eastman School of Music’s Summer Piano Festival and as a faculty member of Nazareth College and Southeastern University. |
Howard Kim Assistant Professor of Music Office: Rosenthal Building, 204 Teaching Courses Applied Piano |
