Mi-Eun Kim

Mi-Eun Kim is a Korean-American pianist, Lecturer in Music and Director of Keyboard Studies at MIT. She has performed in recital and with orchestras across the United States, Europe and Asia, as a soloist with the Boston Pops and the Kansas City, Omaha, Ann Arbor and Chelsea symphonies. Recent projects include Gershwin's *Concerto in F* with the MIT Symphony Orchestra, in the new [critical edition](https://smtd.umich.edu/american-music-institute/gershwin/about/#the-critical-edition) for the work's centennial, and complete Beethoven sonata cycles in the United States and South Korea.

At MIT she teaches piano, coaches chamber music and co-leads [Biomechanics of Piano Playing](http://www.pianobiomechanics.com/), a project at MIT.nano's Immersion Lab supported by the [MIT Human Insight Collaborative](http://mithic.mit.edu/). It studies how movement science, musical expression and teaching meet in piano performance, and has been featured by [MIT News](https://news.mit.edu/2025/human-body-its-movement-and-music-0407) and the [Pittsburgh Post-Gazette](https://newsinteractive.post-gazette.com/piano-technology/).

She has won prizes at the Liszt–Garrison, Corpus Christi and Missouri Southern international competitions, teaches at Brown University, and directs the Hansong Summer Music Festival in South Korea. She holds a DMA, a Specialist Degree and an MM from the University of Michigan and a BA in History from Columbia University, through the Barnard–Columbia–Juilliard Exchange.