Kyoungja Kim Kyoungja Kim

Born in Cheongpyeong, South Korea, Kyoungja Kim showed remarkable talent as a student, winning many piano and composition prizes in Korea. She earned her doctorate in composition at Ewha Womans University, worked as a researcher at Seoul National University of Education, and now teaches music theory and composition at Ewha Womans University. Her string trio “Deux Chemins” was selected for performance in Hanoi, Vietnam, by the Asia-Europe New Music Festival in 2016, and “Le Souhait pour les Fleurs” was performed at a Korean international music festival. Her work “For Seven: New and Old Dreams of the Future” (給七個人的--未來的新舊夢) was selected for the final round of the Shostakovich music competition in Ukraine, where it received its world premiere. She is a member of Veritas Musicae, the New Music Society, the Korean Society of Women Composers, the Asian Composers League Korea and the ISCM Korean Section.