Sunbin Kim is a Korean-born composer based in New York. Sunbin's compositions have been performed in concerts and festivals such as the Aspen Summer Music Festival and School, the Zodiac Music Festival (France,) BUTI Tanglewood Summer Music Festival, the Atlantic Music Festival, the Uzmah/Upbeat International Summer Music Festival (Croatia,) the High Score Summer Festival (Italy,) Charlotte New Music Festival, and the VIPA Summer Festival and Academy (Spain.)
An accomplished pianist, Sunbin performed his own "Fantasy Concerto" with the American Symphony Orchestra under Leon Botstein. His ensemble works have been performed widely In United States and Europe, receiving commissions from the New Juilliard Chamber Ensemble, Quartet Indigo, Iktus Percussion Ensemble, Smash Ensemble, Cisum Percussion Ensemble, the Longleash Ensemble, and the Da Capo Chamber Players. He has received numerous awards including the American Academy of Arts and Letters Charles Ives Scholarship (2018,) the Gena Raps String Quartet Competition (Juilliard 2017,) the New Juilliard Chamber Ensemble Competition (2017,) seven ASCAP Morton Gould Young Composer Awards and the North/ South Consonance Award and commission.
Sunbin was awarded Bachelor's degrees in music composition and physics from Bard College and his Master of Musical Arts degree in composition from The Juilliard School. He is currently studying for his DMA with Reiko Füting at the Manhattan School of Music.
Sunbin is a member of the student-based Gamelan Chandra Kanchana as well as the Gamelan Giri Mekar, a community ensemble originally of Woodstock, NY now in residence at Bard. Sunbin also studies composition privately with Steven Sacco. His hobbies include linguistic studies, Indonesian and Thai cooking, and interspecies communication with cats.
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| Sunbin Kim | Albumleaves | Piano
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| Sunbin Kim | DAYBREAK | vln
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| Sunbin Kim | FANTASY CONCERTO: Visions in the Night Forest | 2221 1220 hp, perc, strings, solo piano
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| Sunbin Kim | FOUR STUDIES ON DARKNESS | orchestra
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| Sunbin Kim | FRAGMENTS |
vln, vcl, pf |
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| Sunbin Kim | GONG | alto flute, marimba, piano
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| Sunbin Kim | GREEN | 222+bscl2 2211 Sop sax, perc(2) strings 66443
orchestra |
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| Sunbin Kim | NIGHT SKY | Percussion (3)
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| Sunbin Kim | PARTICLES |
electronically processed horn, electric guitar, bass, synthesizer and percussion |
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| Sunbin Kim | Pieces in Pieces | bass clarinet, accordion, percussion, double bass
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| Sunbin Kim | PLEIADES | 3 percussion
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| Sunbin Kim | PRELUDE FOR CELLO AND PIANO | cello, piano
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| Sunbin Kim | RED | vln, vla, vcl, pf
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| Sunbin Kim | Reliquary | violin, viola, cello, and piano
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| Sunbin Kim | SERENADE |
ob, hn, pf |
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| Sunbin Kim | SHADOW PLAY | String quartet
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| Sunbin Kim | SLOW CANCELLATION | Clarinet, Violin, Cello, and Piano
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| Sunbin Kim | THREE ETUDES FOR PIANO | Solo Piano
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| Sunbin Kim | TWO MIRRORS | flute + string trio fl vln vla vcl
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| Sunbin Kim | TWO SKETCHES for Clarinet and Piano |
cl, pf |
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| Sunbin Kim | WHIRLWIND |
fl, cl. pf |
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| Sunbin Kim | XUAMAS GABRA | horn, perc(1), piano
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