Nahyun Kim composes in a complex yet modern idiom, combining unique pitch sets with engaging rhythmic profiles and a romantic sensibility that blends intuitive explorations, especially when dealing with psychological complications. She enjoys exploring the subject of mental disorders and writing music influenced by a relationship between cognitive science, psychology and the unity created through the musical experience.
Through numerous conferences and festivals, her works have gained recognition in Greece, Spain, Ukraine, Italy, China, France, Korea, and throughout the United States. She has also worked with ensembles and soloist such as Jessica Nilles, Bera Romairone, Minju Choi, Jenny Lin, MIVOS Quartet, PUBLIQuartet, Ricochet Ensemble, Bruson Quartet, The Sylvanus Ensemble, The American Brass Quintet and among others. In addition, Dr. Kim’s Hypochondriasis for Piano won the 2017 Composition Contest and received performance at the 2018 Abundant Silence New Works Concert, and her string quartet Iracundia won competitions and received performances at the 2014 PUBLIQ Access Showcase Concert in New York City and at the 2013 Kiev New Music Festival. This piece was also awarded an Honorable Mention in the 2014 Macro Analysis Creative Research Organization Composition Competition. As a scholar, she presented, “Development of the Original Korean Musical,” at the Hawaii International Conference on Arts and Humanities.
Currently, she serves as an adjunct assistant professor at Kansas City Kansas Community College where she teaches music theory, keyboard skills, composition, and piano. In recognition of her dedication to teaching, she received the TEACH award (Teaching Excellence And Colleague Honor) for creative, innovative and excellent work in the classroom at KCKCC. Additionally, she teaches composition at the University of Missouri-Kansas City Conservatory of Music and Dance. As composer-in-residence for Grande Gioia Music in Seoul, Korea, Dr. Kim’s current project is the completion of GUMIHO an Opera in Two Acts.
Dr. Kim earned her Bachelor of Arts in Music, and Master of Arts in music theory and composition from Stony Brook University, New York, and a doctorate in composition at the University of Missouri-Kansas City. Her primary teachers include Chen Yi, Zhou Long, James Mobberley, Paul Rudy, and Sheila Silver.
In addition she has participated in master classes and had additional lessons with Dimitri Papageorgiou, Stefano Gervasoni, Ricardo Zohn-Muldoon, Christopher Theofanidis, Dmitri Tymoczko, Mario Garuti, Akira Nishimura, Louis Karchin, Fabien Levy, Stephen Hartke, Alvin Singleton, Christopher Rouse, Claude Baker, Paul Lansky, John Psathas, and Ezra Laderman.
Through numerous conferences and festivals, her works have gained recognition in Greece, Spain, Ukraine, Italy, China, France, Korea, and throughout the United States. She has also worked with ensembles and soloist such as Jessica Nilles, Bera Romairone, Minju Choi, Jenny Lin, MIVOS Quartet, PUBLIQuartet, Ricochet Ensemble, Bruson Quartet, The Sylvanus Ensemble, The American Brass Quintet and among others. In addition, Dr. Kim’s Hypochondriasis for Piano won the 2017 Composition Contest and received performance at the 2018 Abundant Silence New Works Concert, and her string quartet Iracundia won competitions and received performances at the 2014 PUBLIQ Access Showcase Concert in New York City and at the 2013 Kiev New Music Festival. This piece was also awarded an Honorable Mention in the 2014 Macro Analysis Creative Research Organization Composition Competition. As a scholar, she presented, “Development of the Original Korean Musical,” at the Hawaii International Conference on Arts and Humanities.
Currently, she serves as an adjunct assistant professor at Kansas City Kansas Community College where she teaches music theory, keyboard skills, composition, and piano. In recognition of her dedication to teaching, she received the TEACH award (Teaching Excellence And Colleague Honor) for creative, innovative and excellent work in the classroom at KCKCC. Additionally, she teaches composition at the University of Missouri-Kansas City Conservatory of Music and Dance. As composer-in-residence for Grande Gioia Music in Seoul, Korea, Dr. Kim’s current project is the completion of GUMIHO an Opera in Two Acts.
Dr. Kim earned her Bachelor of Arts in Music, and Master of Arts in music theory and composition from Stony Brook University, New York, and a doctorate in composition at the University of Missouri-Kansas City. Her primary teachers include Chen Yi, Zhou Long, James Mobberley, Paul Rudy, and Sheila Silver.
In addition she has participated in master classes and had additional lessons with Dimitri Papageorgiou, Stefano Gervasoni, Ricardo Zohn-Muldoon, Christopher Theofanidis, Dmitri Tymoczko, Mario Garuti, Akira Nishimura, Louis Karchin, Fabien Levy, Stephen Hartke, Alvin Singleton, Christopher Rouse, Claude Baker, Paul Lansky, John Psathas, and Ezra Laderman.
