Piano with Julian K.

South Korea born pianist Julian Jaeyoung Kim has rapidly established an international reputation in 2021 by winning Franz Liszt international piano competition in Spain and “Citta di Barletta” international piano competition in Italy, and also a winner of an impressive array of prizes, he was a top prizewinner of the "Citta di San Donà di Piave" international piano competition, Ischia international piano competition, and "Citta di Sarzana" international piano competition in Italy.  In addition, he made it to the finalist and semi-finalist for more than 10 international piano competitions including Pietro Argento international piano competition, Verona international piano competition, Neapolitan international piano competition, Goerge Gershwin international piano competition, Seattle international piano competition, Ricard Vines international piano competition, and Campillos international piano competition.  He was a featured artist at the Juilliard summer music festival, Mänttä international piano masterclasses in Finland, Dino Ciani music festival in Italy, Villa Sandra piano academy in Italy, and The International Holland Music Sessions in the Netherlands. In addition, he studied with critically acclaimed world-class pianists including Robert McDonald, Jacques Rouvier, Sergei Babayan, Martin Canin, Boris Slutsky, Andre Laplante, Solomon Makowsky, and Alexander Kobrin.  He has appeared at concert venues in more than twenty cities in the world including Carnegie Hall in the United States, Canada, Italy, Finland, South Korea, Spain, Germany, and the Netherlands. He is currently pursuing Doctoral of Musical Arts degree at USC Thornton School of Music under Bernadene Blaha and his previous teachers are Matti Raekallio (Juilliard school), Angela Cheng (Oberlin Conservatory), Eteri Andjaparidze (Mannes school of music) and Jeffrey Swann (New York University). As a teacher, he had held an adjunct faculty position at New York University.