Fortepianist, scholar, and teacher, Ji Young Kim is Visiting Assistant Professor at the University of Rochester, where she has taught at both the Eastman School of Music and the Arthur Satz Department of Music. Her courses focus on 18th- and 19th-century Western art music tailored to students ranging from doctoral performers to non-music majors; she additionally coaches chamber music and works with performers on modern and historical instruments. Previously, she taught at the Australian National University and 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. The dissertation was awarded the Karl Geiringer Scholarship from the American Brahms Society in 2018, and an article therefrom was recently published in 19th-Century Music. She has also contributed reviews to Current Musicology and Keyboard Perspectives. An emerging specialist in the Schumann-Brahms circle, Ji Young was an invited speaker at events celebrating Clara Schumann's 2019 bicentennial in Germany and the United States. As a writer and presenter, her work has been noted for its accessibility and integration of microhistory, hermenutics, music analysis, and performance practice.
Ji Young began her off-the-beaten musical path at age 11 in Santiago, Chile, through lessons in piano and musicianship from a folk guitarist. She then continued her piano studies at Manhattan School of Music with Phillip Kawin and Zenon Fishbein, and pursued a liberal arts education at Columbia University studying German history, philosophy, and literature, as well as music. While a PhD student at Cornell, she explored historical pianos with Malcolm Bilson; as a performer, she now specializes in fortepianos from the 18th and 19th centuries and strives for vivid and sensitive renditions informed by music analysis and historical context. She has performed at early-music festivals such as Boston, Bloomington, and Valley of the Moon, and venues including Alice Tully and Weill Halls in New York City and Llewellyn Hall in Canberra, Australia.
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. The dissertation was awarded the Karl Geiringer Scholarship from the American Brahms Society in 2018, and an article therefrom was recently published in 19th-Century Music. She has also contributed reviews to Current Musicology and Keyboard Perspectives. An emerging specialist in the Schumann-Brahms circle, Ji Young was an invited speaker at events celebrating Clara Schumann's 2019 bicentennial in Germany and the United States. As a writer and presenter, her work has been noted for its accessibility and integration of microhistory, hermenutics, music analysis, and performance practice.
Ji Young began her off-the-beaten musical path at age 11 in Santiago, Chile, through lessons in piano and musicianship from a folk guitarist. She then continued her piano studies at Manhattan School of Music with Phillip Kawin and Zenon Fishbein, and pursued a liberal arts education at Columbia University studying German history, philosophy, and literature, as well as music. While a PhD student at Cornell, she explored historical pianos with Malcolm Bilson; as a performer, she now specializes in fortepianos from the 18th and 19th centuries and strives for vivid and sensitive renditions informed by music analysis and historical context. She has performed at early-music festivals such as Boston, Bloomington, and Valley of the Moon, and venues including Alice Tully and Weill Halls in New York City and Llewellyn Hall in Canberra, Australia.