Student Seongkyeong Kim Joins Future Master Pianists for 2019 Art of the Piano Festival
Seongkyeong Kim (DMA, piano, student of Paul Shaw) was recently selected to participate in the Art of the Piano festival at the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music from May 25–June 15, 2019. Kim will join an elite group of 25 “future master pianists” in master classes, discussions, and performances conducted by a veritable who’s who among the world’s celebrated faculty instructors. Inspired by the legendary master classes of Franz Liszt, Art of the Piano is an intensive, tuition-and-housing-free festival, founded and led by artistic director, distinguished pianist, and educator, Awadagin Pratt. A native of South Korea, Ms. Kim is also recipient of the Judges’ Special Recognition Award at the 48th Annual William C. Byrd International Young Artist Competition held in Flint, Michigan on March 2, 2019. She performed in the Twin Cities with the Kenwood Symphony Orchestra under the baton of Music Director Yuri Ivan (DMA 2008, conducting) on March 23, 2019 as a winner in the Emerging Professional Category of the Orchestra’s 21st Annual Masters Concerto and Aria Competition.
