Jenny Soonjin Kim
Biography Jenny Soonjin Kim
Jenny Soonjin Kim
is a faculty member at Claremont Graduate University in Claremont, California, where she teaches fortepiano and piano. She has performed in major venues in Europe, Asia and North America, and has recorded major keyboard works ranging from Bach to Schoenberg. Dr. Kim has earned degrees from Seoul National University (BA, Music Performance), the Mozarteum in Salzburg (Diploma, Piano), the University of Southern California in Los Angeles (MM and Graduate Certi cate, Piano Performance), the University of California, Los Angeles (Diploma, Music Management and Merchandising) and Claremont Graduate University (DMA, Historical Performance Practices/Keyboard Studies). Her keyboard teachers have included Stewart Gordon, Nakho Paik, Dennis Thurmond and Robert Zappulla. Dr. Kim serves on the Board of Directors of the Los Angeles Master Chorale.
This album was recorded on the campus of Claremont School of Theology in Claremont, California, in January (CD1) and September 2015 (CD2) in the magni cent Kresge Chapel, designed by Edward Durell Stone and completed in 1965. The fortepiano used for these recordings is owned by Claremont Graduate University and was built by Michael Walker in Neckargemünd, Germany, in 1987. It is modelled after an instrument built by Anton Walter in Vienna, Austria, in 1795. The chapel and instrument were both provided gratis for these recordings.
