Teacher Profile: Jason Kim

Jason’s Teaching Philosophy

Jason Kim is currently a masters student at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, studying with Professor Yoshikazu Nagai. He began playing the piano at the age of six and his first teachers included Dr. George Fee and Eunice Ahn. He also studied with Bernadene Blaha of the Thornton School of Music at USC when he was a high school student in San Diego. He recently completed his Bachelor’s Degree of Music at the Shepherd School of Music at Rice University, where he studied with Professor Jon Kimura Parker.

Jason has received numerous prizes and awards, including the Glendale Competition, CAPMT Sonata Competition, Bach Complete Works Competition, UDACS, AVSOMC Bach Competition, Kathryn Gawartin Chopin Competition, 2012 MTAC Panel Final, San Diego Musical Merit Scholarship, International Institute for Young Musicians (IIYM) competition, YMF Scholarship, MTNA CA State Competition, LA Music Center Spotlight, Earl R. and Marilyn Ann Kruschke Competition, LA Liszt International Piano Competition, RB Chorale Scholarship, and National YoungArts Foundation.

During past summers, Jason has been a scholarship student at the International Institute for Young Musicians in Kansas, Colburn Young Artists Festival and at the Eastman School of Music, the Brevard Music Festival, and the Rebecca Penneys Piano Festival. He has also performed at the Academie de Fourviere in Lyon, France and at the California Institute of Music Foundation (CIMF) in Germany. This past summer, Jason attended Aspen Music Festival on a full scholarship funded by the Musical Merit of San Diego.