A recipient of the BW Exemplary Teacher Award in 2017 and the Steinway Top Teacher Award in 2024, Dr. Sungeun Kim is Professor of Piano and Coordinator of Keyboard Program at Baldwin Wallace University Conservatory of Performing Arts.
Sungeun Kim has performed in the U.S., Canada, Russia, Spain, Korea and Italy. A first-prize winner of the Virginia Waring International Piano Competition, she has appeared as a soloist with the Russian Federal Orchestra in Bolshoi Hall at the Moscow Conservatory, the Banff Festival Orchestra, the International Chamber Ensemble of Rome and the Gijon Symphony Orchestra. She has been invited as guest artist to the Texas Conservatory Piano Festival for Young Artists, the Virginia Rising Star Concert Series, the Palm Springs Concert Series and the 24th Concert Stage at St. Ivo in Rome. Many of her performances have been broadcasted over WKAR (MI) and WCLV (OH).
As an active adjudicator and clinician, Sungeun Kim has judged numerous competitions for the Music Teachers National Association in Ohio and Missouri, and the Cleveland Institute of Music Prep Department. She has served as the State Competitions Chair for the Ohio Music Teachers Association and as Vice-President of Student Activities for Northeast Ohio Music Teachers Association. Dr. Kim has given performances and master classes for institutions including Sook Myung Women’s University, the Cleveland International Piano Competitions Young Artists Institute, Summer Sonata at Cleveland Institute of Music, KeysFest at Gilmore Keyboard Festival, and the School of the Arts (SOTA) in Singapore. Recently, Kim, along with her colleague Dr. Robert Mayerovitch, presented a workshop entitled “Better Together: The Rewards of Shared Studio Teaching” at the 2024 International Society of Music Education (ISME) Conference in Helsinki, Finland. During the summer, she teaches at Conservatory Summer Institute for Piano at Baldwin
Wallace University. After receiving her Bachelor of Music degree studying with Kyung-Sook Lee at Yon-Sei University, Kim came to the U.S. to study with Julian Martin at the Peabody Institute of the Johns Hopkins University where she earned her Master of Music and Doctor of Musical Arts degrees. While there, she received the Frances M. Wentz Turner Prize and a graduate assistantship in accompanying. She frequently performed in master classes for Leon Fleisher at Peabody and studied during summers with artist teachers Dominique Weber and Blanca Uribe at the New Millennium Piano Festival
in Spain, and Marc Durand at the Banff Keyboard Festival in Canada.
Sungeun Kim is a Steinway Artist.