composer

Binna Kim is a composer, pianist, and clarinetist from Seoul, Korea. Her inspirations come from various cultural experiences and from installation art by artists such as Lee Ufan and Sarah Sze. Kim’s pieces are the culmination of her attempt to blend art and culture and transform it into music. Her work has been performed in the United States, South Korea, Germany and France by various ensembles, including the Aspen Contemporary Ensemble, Half Stick Duo, CMU Contemporary Ensemble and SNU Chamber Ensemble.

Binna Kim is a composer, pianist, and clarinetist from Seoul, Korea. Her inspirations come from various cultural experiences and from installation art by artists such as Lee Ufan and Sarah Sze. Kim’s pieces are the culmination of her attempt to blend art and culture and transform it into music. Her work has been performed in the United States, South Korea, Germany and France by various ensembles, including the Aspen Contemporary Ensemble, Half Stick Duo, CMU Contemporary Ensemble and SNU Chamber Ensemble.

Recently she was commissioned by the Seattle Metropolitan Chamber Orchestra where her chamber orchestra piece will be premiered in June of 2014. Other recent honors include winning the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra’s 9th Annual Reading Session, conducted by Leonard Slatkin, and the award of the orchestra competition at Carnegie Mellon University.

Kim has also attended notable programs such as the Aspen Music Festival, and participated in master classes with Steven Stucky, John Corigliano, John Harbison, Stephen Hartke, and Michael Finnissy.

Kim is currently pursuing her D.M.A. at the New England Conservatory, studying with Michael Gandolfi. She received her bachelor’s degree from Seoul National University and her master’s degree from Carnegie Mellon University where she studied with Leonardo Balada.

Performances

Jordan Hall at New England Conservatory | March 28, 2014

News and Press

[Concert Review] BMOP's connections elucidated

Boston Modern Orchestra Project’s 15th annual “Boston ConNECtion” concert at Jordan Hall on March 28th was, as you can adduce by reading BMInt’s interview with composer Donald Crockett here, is a bit of a stretch programmatically, as only two of the four composers whose works were presented (the two youngest, as it happened) have or had anything like a significant association with New England Conservatory, and only one of them currently resides in the area.

The Boston Musical Intelligencer Full review
[Concert Review] BMOP offers a riveting, rhapsodic Lei Liang premiere

During China’s Cultural Revolution, one of the world’s oldest civilizations tore itself apart. The estimated 70 million deaths that resulted have touched the lives of just about everyone in the country and many around the world.

One story from China’s remote Xiaoxiang region tells of a widow who avenges the death of her husband by tormenting his killer, a local communist official. Devoid of any legal means of seeking justice, she sat in the forest behind the official’s house every night for months and wailed like a ghost. Both went insane.

Boston Classical Review Full review