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Quentin Kim, pianist/composer

Klara Min

Pianist Quentin Kim, combining old-world elegance with 21st century virtuosity, has been hailed by New York Concert Review as a “memorable and inspiring . . . . thoughtful musician” through whom music sounds “completely new, modern in the best sense of the word, as if freshly created.”

The media reception of Quentin’s solo albums (Blue Griffin Recording) has been enthusiastic:  American Record Guide praised his “warmth that is always engaging” and “extraordinary range of emotion and color” (on the debut album “Romantic Tales”), and Audiophile Audition called him an “interpreter of taste and imaginative fancy, one whose poetry remains just as capable of colossal but humane ferocity” (on the recent release “The Sonata Album”).

As a composer of noted aestheticism and emotional sincerity, Quentin Kim’s works have been heard at the Kennedy Center, Lincoln Center, Carnegie Hall and other major concert venues of the world.  Deemed “refreshingly direct” (New York Concert Review) and “worthy of repeated hearings” (American Record Guide), his music has won the favor of the public, musicians and critics alike.  His composition album “Quentin Kim: Solo Piano Works, vol. 1” is being released by the UniquePiece Records.

Winner of the Grace Welsh International Piano Competition (Grand Prize, unanimous) and the Joong Ang Music Concours of Korea, he has of late appeared at the Pusan International Film Festival (closing ceremony) and Pusan International Music Festival, and also toured Central-South America with members of the International Sejong Soloists.  He has received an Honorable Mention for his string quartet At the Deathbed from the Washington International Competition for Composers and is currently the Composer-in-Residence of the Korea Concert Society in Washington, D.C.

His principal teachers have included Claude Frank, Yoheved Kaplinsky, Jerome Lowenthal, Yong Hi Moon, Soo Jung Shin and Philip Lasser (composition).  He took his bachelor’s degree at Michigan State University, master’s degree at The Juilliard School, and was awarded an Artist Diploma at Yale University.  In 2010, he was named a Doctor of Musical Arts at The Juilliard School, with the document “Aspects of Landowska (1879-1959): A Rhapsodic Aesthete.”

Dr. Kim is currently a Professor of Piano at Pusan National University in Korea.
(For more information please visit www.QuentinKim.com.)