Yun Kim, Organist/Choirmaster
Yun Kyong Kim came to Christ Church in 2000 first as the organist only, and assumed her combined duties in June 2003. She was born in Korea and moved to the United States at the age of sixteen.
Yun received her Doctoral degree in organ performance in 2005 from Indiana University with minors in early music and music theory, where her principal teachers were Christopher Young (organ) and Elisabeth Wright (harpsichord). She holds a Master of Music degree from Indiana University and a Bachelor of Music degree from the University of Washington, where she studied organ with Carole Terry and piano with Robin McCabe. She has also studied and performed in North Germany and France, and made her French debut in Paris at Basilique Sainte-Clotilde in 1997.
Yun was active in local, national and international organ competitions during her collegiate career. She was awarded First Prize at the 1993 Northwest Regional Competition for Young Organists, and won Third Prize at the prestigious 2000 American Guild of Organists’ National Young Artists Competition in Organ Performance at the AGO National Convention in Seattle.
Yun is passionate about bringing musically diverse programs to her audiences and is in great demand as an organ and harpsichord recitalist. Recent engagements have included solo performances at Washington National Cathedral, performing arts series at Ohio University and Miami University, and as a featured recitalist at two National Conventions of the Organ Historical Society and at the Region V Convention of the American Guild of Organists. She has also performed with several instrumental and choral ensembles, including the Pro Arte Singers with Paul Hillier and the Bach Society of Dayton. Her performances have been heard on Seattle Public Radio’s From the Organ Loft program and on Dayton Public Radio.
She is a past Dean of the Dayton Chapter of the AGO, and has served on the faculty of the Pipe Organ Encounter at Ohio University and has chaired the Dayton Church Music Workshop. She is presently an adjunct faculty at Sinclair Community College and serves as organist and choirmaster at Christ Episcopal Church in Dayton, Ohio.
In 2005, Yun released Pops & Pipes!, the first commercial recording made of the organ at Christ Church. The CD features fun and familiar music for organ, and includes the world premiere of complete organ transcription of Carnival of the Animals by Camille Saint-Saëns. The CD is available nationally through the Organ Historical Society (www.ohscatalog.org). Her new CD Of Another Time, recorded on the historic 1920 Austin organ in St. Mary’s Church in Dayton, Ohio, has just been released on the MSR Classics label (www.msrcd.com).
Listen to Yun in the following sample recordings:
Camille Saint-Saëns (1835-1921): Fantaisie in E-flat [Listen]
St. Mary’s Roman Catholic Church, Dayton (from Of Another Time)
J.S. Bach (1685-1750): Prelude and Fugue in C Major, BWV 547 [Listen]
Saint Mark’s Episcopal Cathedral, Seattle (Live performance, July 2000)
Alexandre Guilmant (1837-1911): Finale from Morceau de Concert, Op. 24 [Listen]
Washington National Cathedral (Live performance, August 2006)
Camille Saint-Saëns (1835-1921): Adagio from Symphony No. 3 [Listen]
Arranged for organ and cello by Yun Kyong Kim
Jeffrey Schoyen, cello
Christ Episcopal Church, Dayton (from Pops and Pipes!)