Kim
Pianist Chae-Um Kim is originally from South Korea and is now based in Paris.
She has been invited to numerous contemporary music festivals, including the Boulez Biennale at the Philharmonie de Paris, the Messiaen Festival (La Meije), Traiettorie (Parma), and the New Music Forum (Ljubljana), among others. She performs major works from the contemporary repertoire, both as a soloist and in chamber music and ensemble settings.
She has had the opportunity to collaborate closely with composers such as Philippe Manoury, George Benjamin, Tristan Murail, Bruno Mantovani, and Nina Senk, to name a few.
In 2020, she won Third Prize at the 14th Orléans International Piano Competition (France). There, she captivated the attention of Agata Zubel, whose Chamber Concerto she performed alongside the Ensemble intercontemporain in the competition’s final round. Since then, she has been invited on multiple occasions to perform in a duo with composer and lyric soprano Agata Zubel at various venues across Europe.
Chae-Um Kim pursued her musical training in Germany at the Hochschule für Musik Karlsruhe with Kaya Han and Ulrike Meyer, in Italy at the Imola International Academy with Enrico Pace and Boris Petrushansky, and in France with Michel Dalberto, Claire-Marie Le Guay, and Jean-Frédéric Neuburger at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse de Paris.
She is currently preparing her doctoral thesis at the Conservatoire de Paris and Sorbonne University under the supervision of composer Yan Maresz and musicologist Jean-Marc Chouvel. Chae-Um Kim also shares her expertise through masterclasses and continues to perform in concerts across Europe.
"Her playing intelligently combines the liveliness of her musical spirit with great rigor in execution, always in service of the composers."
— S. Vichard, professor at CNSMDP and CNSMDL, pianist of the Ensemble intercontemporain