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Pianist Adrienne Kim has performed in New York's Alice Tully Hall, Merkin Hall, Weill Recital Hall, Bargemusic, Boston's Symphony Hall, Washington D.C.'s Phillips Gallery and Ravinia's Rising Stars series in Chicago.  She has appeared as soloist with the Central Philharmonic Orchestra of Beijing, the Orquesta Sinfonica Nacional de Mexico, the Portland Chamber Orchestra, and the Richmond Orchestra.    

Ms. Kim was a member of Chamber Music Society Two, The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center's two-year residency program for emerging young artists. She is also a founding member of the New York Chamber Music Co-Op, a new creative performance collaborative based in New York City. She performs regularly as a member of the Bronx Arts Ensemble and has performed with the New York Chamber Ensemble, Garden City Chamber Music Society, Lighthouse Chamber Players, Salt Bay Chamberfest, Carnegie Chamber Players, the Sherman Chamber Ensemble, the Society for New Music, the Skaneateles Festival, and was the resident pianist of the Seal Bay Festival for American Chamber Music in Maine for 15 years.   

With the West End Chamber Ensemble, ensemble-in-residence at the North Carolina School of the Arts, she participated in the National Endowment for the Arts/Chamber Music America Rural Residency. She has recorded the solo and chamber works of Daniel S. Godfrey with the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra on the Koch label, the violin and piano sonatas of Charles Ives with Lisa Tipton on Capstone Records and the sonatas of Niels Gade with violinist, Katie Wolfe on the Centaur label.  She and Ms. Tipton also present the “Made in America” series at Weill Hall in Carnegie Hall.  A CD with violinist Jorge Avila, featuring the sonatas of Granados, Turina and Rodrigo has also been released on Centaur.  

Ms. Kim teaches at Mannes School of Music at The New School, in the Prep and College of Performing Arts divisions, and also serves as Coordinator of the Piano Department in the Prep division and the Coordinator of Secondary Piano in the College division.  She is a coach for the New York Youth Symphony's chamber music program and teaches at the Hoff-Barthelson School in Scarsdale.  She was Affiliate Artist at Syracuse University and was on the Concert Artist Faculty at Kean University in New Jersey, and taught at the Kinhaven Music School in Vermont for 12 summers. She serves on the Executive Board of the Piano Teachers' Congress of New York City. She is on the faculty at Mezzano Music Academy International in Italy and the Summertrios festival in Pennsylvania in the summer.   

Ms. Kim studied with Menahem Pressler at Indiana University where she earned her Bachelor's degree and earned her Master's degree from Manhattan School of Music, where she was a student of Leon Fleisher.      

Degrees Held

B.M. Indiana University

M.M. Manhattan School of Music