Kim Dae-jin (pianist)

Daejin Kim is a South Korean pianist, an alumnus of The Juilliard School, the first prize winner of the Cleveland Competition, and currently a professor of piano at the Korea National University of Arts and the music director of the Suwon Philharmonic Orchestra.

In 1986, Kim made his New York debut and received a favorable review from the critic for The New York Times who wrote that "Daejin Kim demonstrated all the accouterments necessary for a successful solo career. Kim has what seems to be a foolproof technique and his careful choice of music showed a musician interested in subtleties, not just the usual frontal assaults of bravura repertory. This is a fine young musician, one with the physical means to express his considerable musical intelligence."

In 1987, he was invited to perform with the Cleveland Orchestra and since then his international career has taken him to major concert halls in Europe, Asia and the United States as soloist with the Juilliard Symphony Orchestra, the White Plains Symphony Orchestra, the Orchestra Nationale de Lille and the Pasdeloup Orchestra in France, and the Sofia State Symphony Orchestra among others, with such noted conductors as Dmitri Kitaenko, Kenneth Schermerhorn, Jahja Ling, Jean-Claude Casadesus and Marek Janowski.

In 1994, Kim and his family moved to South Korea. Since then he has been pursuing dual careers as a concert artist and a teacher. His master classes have drawn international recognition and at the same time, he has been able to maintain a full schedule of performances, besides many appearances as a chamber musician and collaborator, such as the national recital tour (1995), the Schubert Bicentennial Celebration recital (1997) and appearances with all the major symphony orchestras including the Korean Symphony Orchestra, the Seoul Philharmonic Orchestra. He appeared under the direction of Dmitri Kitaenko with the KBS Symphony Orchestra playing Schumann Concerto and this performance led him to appear as soloist with the Seoul Philharmonic Orchestra to perform two consecutive Chopin's Piano Concertos in the 1998 Orchestra Festival, the most prestigious music festival in Korea presented by the Seoul Arts Center. In 2000, he gave a one-day performance of the complete Beethoven's Piano Concertos. In 2001, he has started the cycle of the complete Mozart Piano Concertos which will last until 2005. He has also released three recordings, "4 Ballades by Chopin & 8 Nocturnes by Poulenc" (Arcadia label), "The Complete Nocturnes of John Field", and "The Complete Nocturnes of Chopin" (Monopoly label). His new recording of Two Piano Concertos by Mozart, which he conducted the Polish National Symphony Orchestra from the keyboard, was released in October 2004.

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