Kim Jin-hi

For other people with the same name, see Kim Jin-hee.
In this Korean name, the family name is Kim.
Kim Jin-hi
Kim playing the komungo in 2015
Korean name
Hangul
김진희
Hanja
Revised RomanizationGim Jin-hui
McCune–ReischauerKim Chin-hŭi

Jin Hi Kim (Korean: 김진희; RR: Gim Jin-hui; born February 6, 1957, in Incheon, South Korea) is a composer and performer of komungo and electric komungo, and a Korean music specialist.[1]

Kim is known as a pioneer for introducing geomungo (거문고, a Korean fretted board zither, also spelled komungo) to American contemporary classical music scene through her own cross-cultural chamber and orchestral compositions and her extensive solo work in avant-garde, as well as cross-cultural free improvisation. She is a Guggenheim fellow in composition and her recent works include the development of komungobot (algorithmic robotic instrument) and solo performances of the world's only electric komungo with live interactive MIDI computer system in her large-scale multimedia performance pieces.

Kim has received commissions from the American Composers Orchestra, Kronos Quartet, and Tan Dun's New Generation of East for Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, among others.

During the last three decades Kim has performed as a komungo soloist[2] in her own compositions at Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, Kennedy Center (Washington, D.C.), Smithsonian Freer Gallery of Art (Washington, DC), Metropolitan Museum of Art, Asia Society (NYC), Haus der Kulturen der Welt (Berlin), and for collaborative improvisations at Royal Festival Hall (London), Venice Biennale, Moers Festival (Germany) and many significant international festivals throughout the USA, Europe, Canada, Latin America, South America, Russia, Asia, New Zealand, and Australia.[3]

  1. ^ "Jin Hi Kim - Biography". www.jinhikim.com. Retrieved 2016-10-30.
  2. ^ "Jin Hi Kim - Korean Music". www.jinhikim.com. Retrieved 2016-10-30.
  3. ^ "Profile: Fellowship Composer Jin Hi Kim". www.americancomposers.org. Retrieved 2016-10-30.