Hailed 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 as "a real virtuoso of the instrument. [with] astonishing artistry at the keyboard."
In addition to performances in major cities around the world such as New York, Washington D.C., Chicago, Paris, Warsaw, Toronto, and Montreal, Angela Jia Kim's performances have been broadcast on PBS Television, Japan's NHK telecast throughout Asia, CBC Radio broadcast throughout Canada, New York's WNYC, Washington D.C.'s Voice of America, and Chicago's WMFT-FM (Dame Myra Hess Concert Series.) In 2002-03, she will be touring North America with "Dances and Fantasies," a program that has critics praising her "artistic and technical prowess" as well as her "finesse and profound sensitivity." She recorded this program, which includes works by Mozart, Ravel, Schubert, and Scriabin, for commercial release on the Miró Classical label. She will also be devoting a significant portion of the season to chamber music recitals, including performances at the Laguna Beach Chamber Music Festival with world-renowned pianist Claude Franck. In 2003, her piano trio, Trio Movado will make its European debut in France.
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 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 in Illinois. As a result of her prize-winning performance in the Début Young Concert Competition, she 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 and Iowa Arts Councils.
Angela Jia Kim has performed as an orchestral soloist with the Des Moines Symphony Orchestra and the Waterloo-Cedar Falls Symphony Orchestra, among others. Following her performance of the Grieg Concerto, a reviewer from The Waterloo Courier wrote, "Electrifying. with great delicacy and rich colors. Kim's playing of the concerto was the best I have 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. 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 at an international festival at Chicago's Auditorium Theatre. Her teachers include Marc Durand, Lee Kum Sing, Barry Snyder, and Chiu-Ling Lin. She is an Eastman School of Music graduate and currently resides in New York City.
Check out the artist's website:
http://www.angelajiakim.comTrack List:
1. Ravel, Valses nobles et sentimentales: Modere-tres lent
2. Ravel, Valses nobles et sentimentales: Assez lent
3. Ravel, Valses nobles et sentimentales: Modere
4. Ravel, Valses nobles et sentimentales: Assez anime
5. Ravel, Valses nobles et sentimentales: Presque lent
6. Ravel, Valses nobles et sentimentales: Vif
7. Ravel, Valses nobles et sentimentales: Moins vif
8. Ravel, Valses nobles et sentimentales: Epilogue
9. Ravel, Pavane pour une infante defunte
10. Scriabin, Sonate-Fantasy: Andante
11. Scriabin, Sonate-Fantasy: Presto
12. Schbert, Wander Fantasy: Allgero
13. Scriabin, Sonate-Fantasy: Adagio
14. Scriabin, Sonate-Fantasy: Presto
15. Scriabin, Sonate-Fantasy: Allegro
16. Mozart, Fantasia in D minor, K.397
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