Sunbin Clara Kim is a Korean-born composer based in New York. Her 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, Clara performed her own "Fantasy Concerto" with the American Symphony Orchestra under Leon Botstein. Her 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. She 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 Clara Kim was awarded Bachelor's degrees in music composition and physics from Bard College and the Master of Musical Arts degree in composition from The Juilliard School. She completed the DMA degree, studying with Reiko Füting at the Manhattan School of Music.
Clara is a member of the Gamelan Chandra Kanchana as well as the Gamelan Giri Mekar, a community ensemble originally of Woodstock, NY. Her hobbies include linguistic studies, Indonesian and Thai cooking, and interspecies communication with cats. She is currently teaching composition and piano in New York City.
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