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JI YOUNG KIM
Ji Young is a scholar, performer, and educator specializing in Western art music from the 18th and 19th centuries. She began her off-the-beaten musical path at age 11 in Santiago, Chile, studying piano with a guitarist who combined folk and classical music. After immigrating to New York, Ji Young continued her piano studies at Manhattan School of Music and then pursued a liberal arts education at Columbia University. As a performer, she now specializes in historical pianos from the 18th and 19th centuries and strives for vivid and sensitive renditions informed by music analysis and performance practice.

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 received the Karl Geiringer Scholarship from the American Brahms Society in 2018. As a writer and presenter, her work has been noted for its accessibility and an unusual combination of flair and restraint. An emerging specialist in the Schumann-Brahms circle, she was an invited speaker at various events celebrating Clara Schumann's 2019 bicentennial in Germany and the United States.

​Ji Young is 
currently Visiting Assistant Professor at the University of Rochester. She has previously taught at the Australian National University and Indiana University–Bloomington.
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