​Ji Young Kim is (Visiting) Assistant Professor of Music at the University of Rochester, where she has taught at both the Eastman School of Music and Arthur Satz Department of Music. A sought-after teacher and mentor, she offers music history surveys and more specialized courses on the history and practice of Western art music from the 18th and 19th centuries tailored to students ranging from DMA performers to non-music majors. She additionally enjoys coaching Lieder and chamber music on modern and historical instruments. Previously, she was a lecturer of piano, chamber music, and musicology at the Australian National University, and of musicology at Indiana University–Bloomington.

​Ji Young received a PhD in musicology from Cornell University with a dissertation that explored aspects of embodiment as interpersonal communication in the piano compositions of Robert Schumann and Johannes Brahms; it was awarded the Karl Geiringer Scholarship from the American Brahms Society. She has published in 19th-Century Music and contributed reviews to Keyboard Perspectives and Current Musicology. An emerging specialist of the Schumann-Brahms circle, she was an invited speaker at celebrations of Clara Schumann's 2019 bicentennial in Germany and the United States. Her writings and presentations have been noted for their accessibility, expressivity, and unusual combination of microhistory, performance practice, and music criticism.

Ji Young began her musical path at age 11 in Santiago, Chile, with lessons in piano and musicianship from a folk guitarist. After undergraduate studies in piano performance at Manhattan School of Music and Conservatorium van Amsterdam, she studied German history, philosophy, and literature, as well as music history and theory at Columbia University. During her PhD at Cornell, she shifted her focus to historical pianos and has since appeared at the Boston Early Music, Bloomington Early Music, and Valley of the Moon festivals. She has also performed at such venues as Alice Tully, Carnegie's Weill, and Llewellyn halls.