Described by critics as “a superb colorist” with playing that is “full
of life and fantasy,” pianist Angela Jia Kim has delighted audiences
around the world in recital, orchestral, and chamber music
performances. Maria Curcio, the eminent protégée of Artur Schnabel,
described Angela Jia Kim as “a real virtuoso of the instrument… [with]
astonishing artistry at the keyboard.”

In a time of increasing sameness in styles and cultures, Angela Jia Kim
has devoted herself to the subtle shades of the great French masters,
classicists, and other luminaries of the piano literature, bringing
their elegant voices to the public with freshness and poeticism.
Critics and audiences have responded, and Angela Jia Kim has been
engaged and re-engaged in many of the world's great musical centers
including New York, Washington D.C., Chicago, San Francisco, Paris,
Warsaw, Toronto, and Montreal. During the 2004-2005 concert season, she
will embark on a 27 concert tour across the United States with
“Impressions, Images, and Impromptus”, a program featuring works of
Schubert, Ravel, Beethoven, Schumann, and Liszt.

Angela Jia Kim’s performances have been broadcast on PBS Television
(Studio III Presents Angela Jia Kim), Japan's NHK telecast throughout
Asia, CBC Radio nationwide, Chicago's WMFT- Dame Myra Hess Concert
Series, New York's WNYC, and Washington D.C.'s Voices of America.
Recent season highlights include performances alongside Beethoven
master pianist Claude Frank, for which a reviewer from the Orange
County Register praised Angela Jia Kim’s “deeply burnished and
expressive piano playing…” and described her as “a poetic cushion.” A
2001 performance in Burgundy, France created such a stir that prominent
members of the audience immediately founded Festival Jeune Talents, an
international music festival in which Angela Jia Kim was invited to be
the cornerstone guest artist. In 2003, she released her “Dances and
Fantasies” debut album (MCR Records) that accompanied a tour throughout
North America by the same name. Critics at home and abroad praised her
"finesse and profound sensitivity" (Le Pays, France). Angela Jia Kim
will be featured in “Piano Stories: 101 Inspirational Stories from the
World’s Best Pianists”, which is written by Susan Derby and is
scheduled for release in early 2005 by WP Publications.

Among her collection of prizes, Angela Jia Kim was honored with the
award for Best Interpretation of French Music by the French Piano
Institute in Paris, which led to performances of works by Debussy,
Ravel, and Poulenc at Salle Cortot in Paris and at the French Embassy
in Washington, D.C. She has also been recognized for her
interpretations of Mozart by winning the grand prize at the Mozart
Festival Competition in Illinois. As a result of her prize-winning
performance in the Début Young Concert Artist Competition, Ms. Kim gave
a recital that was broadcast across Canada as part of the CBC Radio
program, Music from Montreal. In addition, she has been the recipient
of awards and grants from the New York Arts Council.

Angela Jia Kim has performed as an orchestral soloist with the Des
Moines Symphony Orchestra, St. John’s Chamber Players, St. Croix
Symphony, and the Waterloo-Cedar Falls Symphony Orchestra, among
others. Following her performance of the Grieg Concerto, a critic from
the Waterloo Courier wrote, “Electrifying… with great delicacy and rich
colors… Kim’s playing of the concerto was the best I have ever heard…
She played with as much feeling as any pianist I have ever heard.”

A native of Ames, Iowa, Angela Jia Kim's first musical experiences came
at the age of four, studying piano with her mother, Hannah Myung Kim.
By age five, she was already winning awards, performed her first
recital, and had begun her violin studies. At eight, she was invited to
perform Mozart at an international festival at Chicago's Auditorium
Theatre. Her teachers include Marc Durand, Lee Kum Sing, Barry Snyder,
and Chiu-Ling Lin. She has also received intensive coaching from master
pianist Sergei Babayan. An Eastman School of Music graduate, Angela Jia
Kim currently resides in New York City.