Ji Young Kim is a music scholar, performer, and educator specializing in music of the late 18th and 19th centuries. She is currently Assistant Professor at the Eastman School of Music (visiting) and has previously been a lecturer at Cornell University, the Australian National University, and Indiana University–Bloomington's Jacobs School of Music.

Born in Paraguay, Ji Young began her music studies in her hometown of Santiago, Chile, and continued in New York, where she studied piano performance at Manhattan School of Music and German culture at Columbia University. She received her PhD in musicology from Cornell 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.

In addition to her academic pursuits, Ji Young delved into historical keyboards with Malcolm Bilson while a student at Cornell. As a performer, she strives for sensitive and vivid renditions of 18th- and 19th-century music informed by historical contexts and instruments, analytical insight, and careful programming. In all facets of her work, she combines microhistory, music analysis, and performance practice in search for musical meaning and concrete sonic and embodied experiences.