Soprano KYUNG HEE KIM has delighted audiences with her concert and operatic performances throughout Europe, Asia, Latin America, and the United States.  Engagements this past season featured her as soloist with the Rumania Orchestra, Pitesti Philharmonie and Gala Concert at Municipal Theatre in Lima and Trujillo, Peru. She also gave a Master Class at Conservatorio Regiomal de Musica del Morte  Publico Trujillo, Peru. This season, she will be performing in a Gala Concert at Weill Recital Hall, Carnegie Hall.

Ms. Kim made her professional recital debut in her native Seoul, Korea, followed by a European debut in Vienna with the Richard Wagner Opera Society.  She has appeared many times in China, where one of her performances was the first professional Western recital ever presented in Hunan province.

Known for her elegant interpretations, her opera roles include numerous engagements with Teatro Carlo Felice in New York, Lyric Opera of New Jersey and the Bronx Opera, where she sang Violetta in La Traviata; Mimi in La Bohème; title role in Madama Butterfly; Liu in Turandot; Magda in La Rondine; Micäela in Carmen; and Pamina in Die Zauberflöte.  As an oratorio/symphonic soloist, audiences have also enjoyed her performances of Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony, Haydn’s The Creation, Mendelssohn’s Elijah, and Handel’s Messiah at esteemed venues, including Avery Fisher Hall (Lincoln Center) and Carnegie Hall.

Ms. Kim has also appeared in many other performances such as the Gala Concert at the Opera America National Opera Center in New York; soloist in Mozart’s Exultate, jubilate with Bergen Symphony Orchestra; World Premiere Contemporary Music at Symphony Space in New York; soloist with Concierto Sinfonia de Gala in Lima, Peru; Carnegie Concert Series in Rockland County, NY; solo recitals in Atlanta, GA; Richter Association for the Art’s concerts in Connecticut; and soloist in Bach’s Mass in B Minor with St. George Episcopal in Newburgh, NY.

Ms. Kim is a frequent soloist with Westchester Wind Orchestra (NY) and the primary soloist with Music from Above Foundation, where she teaches master classes as well as perform in orchestral and televised performances such as Concierto con Orchestra Sinfonica Juvenile de Yucatan in Merida, Mexico; Anfiteatro Eva Peron del Parque Centenario in Argentina; Universidad Mariano Galvez in Guatemala and Paraguay; and concerts in Turkey and Kazakhstan.

She currently serves as Alumni Council Member at the Manhattan School of Music and is also the President of Korean Music Foundation, which has presented over 100 New York debut recitals to up-and-coming artists since 1984. Ms. Kim received her Bachelor’s from Seoul National University and Master’s degree in Voice from the Manhattan School of Music.