Hailed as “the most charming…vivid, observant artist…with personality…wit, buoyancy and affection”(The Plain Dealer, Cleveland), whose playing “worked magic” and was “simply beautiful” (Goslarsche Zeitung, Germany), Korean pianist Quentin Kim performs extensively in the United States, Europe, and Asia, having been presented in many venues worldwide including Alice Tully Hall in New York City, Salle Cortot in Paris, Bishopsgate Hall in London, the Harold Washington Library in Chicago, and at the Permanent Mission of the Republic of Korea to the United Nations. He has been invited to perform at the International Piano Festival of Gijón (Spain) and at such illustrious concert series as the Dame Myra Hess and the Jerome L. Greene Memorial Concerts Series of Chicago and New York City, respectively, as well as at New York City’s Steinway Hall and Yamaha Piano Salon, University of Illinois at Chicago, National-Louis University, the Nineteenth Century Club of Oak Park, Illinois, and MiraCosta College in Oceanside, California, to name a few. He also performed with numerous orchestras, having appeared with the Elgin Symphony, Kankakee Valley Symphony, Michigan Chamber Symphony, and Michigan State University Symphony Orchestra, among many others.

Quentin has been the First Prize winner of a number of national and international competitions, among them the prestigious Joong Ang Music Concours of Korea, the Grace Welsh International Prize for Piano, the Five Towns Music and Arts Competition (N. Y.), the Kalamazoo Bach Young Artists’ Competition, and was a Concert Artists Guild International Competition finalist.

Equally active as a composer, Quentin’s music has been heard to an acclaim in such venues as Alice Tully Hall, Salle Cortot, New York Society for Ethical Culture, the Faust Harrison Pianos of New York City, Manhattan School of Music, The Juilliard School, and at the Concerts at the Crossroads series in Cleveland. His works include two piano sonatas, a piano trio, a string quartet, and an operatic scene, as well as many songs and shorter works for piano. All his music has been published by Edition Pacelli.

Quentin’s teachers have included Claude Frank, Yoheved Kaplinsky, Philip Lasser (composition), Jerome Lowenthal, Yong Hi Moon, and Soo-Jung Shin. He attended the European American Musical Alliance (Paris), the Music Academy of the West (Santa Barbara, California), Goslar International Concert Workshop (Germany), Prague International Piano Masterclasses (Czech Republic), Salzburg Summer Academy (Austria), Pianofest (the Hamptons, N. Y.), and Shandelee Music Festival (the Catskill Mountains, N. Y.). Quentin was named a Bachelor of Music by Michigan State University, a Master of Music by The Juilliard School, and was awarded an Artist Diploma from Yale University. He returned to The Juilliard School as a C.V. Starr Doctoral Fellow in 2005.

Quentin has also been much involved as a chamber musician, having appeared in Alice Tully Hall as a member of The Mersenne Trio, presented by The Juilliard School, and in Hoam Art Hall (Seoul), Leeum Museum of Art (Seoul), Samsung Experience (New York City) as a member of Uptown Camerades, presented by International Sejong Soloists. He is also a frequent guest artist-lecturer at the Dead Pianists Society concert series, hosted by the Hudson Valley Piano Club (N. Y.). Quentin’s performances have been broadcasted on WCLV and WJFF.

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