Hyun Kim
Repetitor
Hyun Kim, a versatile artist, maintains a diverse career encompassing various roles such as pianist, vocal coach, conductor, and educator. Before joining the University of Oklahoma as an assistant professor of vocal coaching, she held positions as an assistant teaching professor at the University of Missouri-Kansas City (UMKC) and a visiting professor in Collaborative Piano, as well as Music Director/Conductor of the University Opera Theater at the University of Arkansas. Internationally recognized, she has been appointed as a visiting professor at institutions such as the Federal University of Santa Catarina and the University of Campinas in Brazil. Kim’s passion for vocal music has led her to participate in numerous music festivals and opera companies, including the Festival de Musique de Sully et du Loiret in France, the Agassiz Chamber Music Festival in Canada, the Aspen Music Festival, the Music Academy of the West, the Bay View Music Festival, the Lucca Opera Festival in Italy, Cincinnati Opera, Opera Colorado, Central City Opera, Loveland Opera, Emerald City Opera, Opera Steamboat, Boulder Opera, Soo Theatre, and Korea National Opera, among others. Kim is active with several scholarly organizations internationally, and her most recent projects have been with Song of the New Generation in Korea, an organization she founded to promote the research and performance of the contemporary art song medium, and she has served as a committee member with Sintonize Produtora Cultural, a new music festival in Brazil. Kim’s performances and interviews have been broadcast on KBS, KVOD-FM Colorado Public Radio, Rocky Mountain PBS, and NGT São Paulo. After her early education in Korea and France, Kim earned an M.M. degree from the College-Conservatory of Music at the University of Cincinnati under Professor Kenneth Griffiths and a D.M.A. from the University of Colorado Boulder under Professor Anne Epperson. Currently, Kim is involved in an installation exhibition project in partnership with the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, sponsored by the Walton Family Foundation.