Daniel Kim (G), piano

Presented by the Emerson/Harris Program for Private Study Solo Recital Series

Livestream: https://mta.mit.edu/viewlisten/live-killian-hall

About the Performers

Daniel Kim is an award-winning pianist and musician who is dedicated to sharing music with his communities. He is an Emerson/Harris Program Fellow and a member of Chamber Music Society at MIT, and serves as an Arts Resident Tutor in Adams House at Harvard College.

Daniel has won numerous accolades, including second prize and Best Performance of required contemporary work at the New York International Piano Competition and first prize at the Boston Symphony Orchestra Concerto Competition. He has performed extensively across New England as part of the Stecher and Horowitz Foundation Young Artist Series. He is also an avid chamber musician and has played in over 30 chamber music groups, with notable performances in the Shalin Liu Performance Center and DeBartolo Performing Arts Center.

During his undergraduate at Harvard, Daniel organized benefit concerts with The Jimmy Fund, and curated student performances as Arts Chair of his House Committee, earning the Timothy Faron Memorial Fund Award for Music. He currently studies with Mi-Eun Kim, and previously studied with Jonathan Bass and Marilyn Roth, and composition with Rodney Lister.

Daniel is currently pursuing his PhD at MIT in Medical Engineering and Medical Physics advised by Prof. Sangeeta Bhatia, where his research focuses on developing minimally invasive diagnostics for early detection of cancer and other diseases.

About the Emerson/Harris Program for Private Study

Support for private musical study is available for students through the Emerson/Harris Program (E/HP), which offers merit-based financial awards for outstanding achievement on instruments or voice in classical, jazz, or world music. Each academic year, the program awards Scholarships and Fellowships to nearly seventy students who commit to a full year’s study and participate in the musical life of MIT.

Auditions for the program are held at the beginning of each academic year. Private teacher selections, made in consultation with the E/HP jury heads, may include instructors from MIT staff and throughout Greater Boston. The Emerson/Harris Program is funded by the late Mr. Cherry L. Emerson, Jr. (SM, 1941), in response to an appeal from AssociateProvost Ellen T. Harris (Class of 1949 Professor Emeritus of Music). The Emerson/Harris Masterclass Series is supported, in part, by the Robert L. Malster (1956) Fund.