Dr. Hyemin Kim a versatile concert pianist and educator, serving as a core faculty member in Collaborative Piano at Interlochen Arts Academy. Her expansive career is marked by a wide range of performance roles, seamlessly integrating her work as a recitalist, concerto soloist, chamber musician, artist collaborator, and pedagogue.

Dr. Kim has performed extensively across the U.S., Austria, and Korea, gracing highly regarded international stages such as the Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall (U.S.) and the Mozart Hall of the Wiener Konzerthaus (Austria). Beyond these landmark venues, her performances include appearances at Stiftung Mozarteum-Großer Saal, Ehrbar Saal, Grazer Landesmuseum (Austria), Youngsan Grace Hall, Sungsan Art Hall (Korea), and numerous U.S. venues such as the Ramsdell Center for the Arts, Corson Auditorium at Interlochen, Cole Concert Hall at SFA, and the Steinway Hall Piano Gallery Detroit. This breadth of concertizing highlights her solo recitals and concerto appearances, featuring notably collaborations with the Philharmonische Solisten Bratislava (Vienna, Austria), the Archi Chamber Orchestra (Changwon, South Korea), and the Benzie Area Symphony Orchestra (Interlochen, MI).

Her artistry has been recognized with numerous accolades in international piano competitions. Remarkably, she received the Schubert Special Award at the Internationaler Wiener Pianisten Wettbewerb, alongside top prizes from the Vienna Grand Prize Virtuoso Competition, the Concorso Internazionale d'Esecuzione Musicale "NUOVI TALENTI", the Tadini International Music Competition, the Concorso Internazionale Città di Ischia, the Fanny Mendelssohn International Competition, the Franz Liszt Center Piano Competition, and the American Protégé International Competition.

As a highly sought-after collaborator, Dr. Kim was invited as a pianist at the Styrian Chamber Music Festival (Graz, Austria) to perform with Erich Oskar Huetter, the founder and director of haus.kultur and Sounding Jerusalem. Furthermore, she is the Artistic Director and chamber artist for the fully sponsored Hyemin Kim's Concert Series, "Classical Voyage," presented by the Music House Museum (Williamsburg, MI). Her chamber music partners have included a roster of distinguished musicians, such as Principal players from the New York Philharmonic, the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, and the Detroit Symphony Orchestra, alongside faculty members from institutions including The Juilliard School of Music, the Eastman School of Music, Yale School of Music, Manhattan School of Music, and Oberlin Conservatory.

Dr. Kim holds dual Doctor of Musical Arts (D.M.A.) degrees in Piano Performance and Collaborative Piano from Michigan State University, where she studied as a full scholarship and graduate assistant fellowship recipient. She also earned a Master of Music and Postgraduate Diploma from the Universität für Musik und darstellende Kunst Graz in Austria, and a Bachelor of Music from Kookmin University in South Korea. Prior to her appointment at Interlochen Arts Academy, she served as a Piano Instructor at the Flint Institute of Music and as a Chief Mentor at the Celebrating the Spectrum Piano Festival. Currently, Dr. Kim holds leadership positions as the Chair of Representation and Advocacy at MMTA (Michigan Music Teachers Association) and a committee member in Inclusive Teaching at The Piano Conference: NCKP 2025, and serves as a Piano Instructor at Blue Lake Fine Arts Camp.