Saehyun Kim - Pianist

Born in 2007, Saehyun Kim is a South Korean pianist based in Boston, MA. In July 2023, he was awarded the First Prize, the Audience Prize, and the Junior Jury Prize in the Cleveland International Piano Competition for Young Artists. Previous major accolades include first prizes in the Morningside Music Bridge International Concerto Competition, the NEC Preparatory School Concerto Competition, and the Harvard Musical Association High School Achievement Awards Competition; notably, he also took second prize and was the youngest finalist at the International Tchaikovsky Online Piano Competition for Young Musicians. Over the past decade, Kim has performed at Jordan Hall, Hitachi Systems Hall Sendai, Seoul Arts Center, and Kumho Art Hall, appearing as a soloist with orchestras, such as the Canton Symphony, Sendai Philharmonic, and Korean Symphony. Currently, he is a Lang Lang Foundation Young Scholar and a senior at Walnut Hill School for the Arts, studying with HaeSun Paik, faculty at NEC.