Hajin Kim

Piano

Dr. Hajin Kim is currently a piano faculty member at Michigan State University Community Music School (CMS). She has also been a piano faculty member at Blue Lake Fine Arts Camp in Michigan and served as an adjunct piano professor at Siena Heights University.

Dr. Kim has continually increased her private studio lessons and classes since starting to teach at CMS Michigan State University. Through her lessons, in which she teaches all levels of piano and theory classes, she provides students with a broad view that enables them to improve their performances and assignments. Her dedication and commitment have helped ensure her students’ elevated performance, as evidenced at select competition awards, such as the Capital Area of Michigan Music Teachers Association (CAMTA) of the Music Teachers National Association (MTNA) and the Performing Arts Students (PAS) club in Lansing, Michigan. She has also served as a music competition adjudicator for the Michigan PTA Reflections Arts Program since 2019.

Born in Seoul Korea, Dr. Kim began her piano studies at age four, winning first place at the Yook Young National Piano Competition in Seoul, Korea at age six and first place at the Seoul National Music Competition in South Korea at age eleven. She eventually earned her Bachelor of Music degree for piano performance at Boston Conservatory in Boston, Massachusetts, and her Master of Music for piano performance at Sookmyung Women’s University in Seoul, Korea. Most recently, she earned her Doctor of Musical Arts degree in piano performance at Michigan State University, where she also received her second Master of Music degree for piano pedagogy as a double major with her piano performance major.

As a solo pianist, Dr. Kim has performed at multiple venues, including piano solo recital at Weill Hall at Carnegie Hall in New York; Centro Studi Carlo Della Giacoma in Todi, Italy; and at locations throughout South Korea and the USA. Based on her proven curriculum for piano class for all levels, she published two piano textbooks. Piano Master for Everyone Level I received excellent reviews from Kirkus Reviews, one of the top critics for new publications in New York:

 “Readers will be pleasantly surprised at how quickly they’re able to try their hands at classic         compositions...”; “covering exactly what the reader needs to know, and not a sentence more”; and “aspiring players seeking to teach themselves directly from the page couldn’t find more straightforward instruction.”      

                                                                                          -Kirkus Reviews in New York

 Piano Master for Everyone Level II was also named within the top 5% of all books published in 2022 by Outskirts Press and earned the bronze prize for the academic/educational category in the EVVY Awards, an international independent publishing award supported by the Colorado Independent Publishers Association (CIPA) in 2023.

She has not only performed as an active soloist, but has also participated in chamber recitals and master classes. As an active musician and teacher of piano pedagogy, she has honed her teaching effectiveness by giving private lessons and teaching all levels of class piano.

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