Piano Studio of Caroline Hwangbo Kim
Bio
Caroline Hwangbo Kim began her musical studies at the age of three. She studied through high school with Dr. Tinka Knopf and Julio Esteban at the Preparatory Department of the Peabody Conservatory of Music at Johns Hopkins University and spent summers studying with Dr. Paul Reed at Wichita State University and in the Boston area on Nantucket Island. She has garnered prizewinning awards from numerous local and statewide competitions. Her performances have taken her to Strathmore (Bethesda, MD) and Carnegie Hall (New York City) where, at the age of seven, she was a prizewinner in an all-level Atlantic Coast competition. Growing up, she served as the principal pianist and choral accompanist at her church as well as for the Maryland Youth Symphony Orchestra under the baton of Angelo Gatto.
Performing El Fandango de Candil
(from Goyescas suite) by Enrique Granados
Active in the Virginia, Maryland, and Washington DC areas, Ms. Kim maintains a thriving private piano studio in Northern Virginia. Her students have been lauded as top prizewinners in local and international competitions, performing in New York City at Carnegie Hall. She holds memberships in national, state, and local music associations and has been in high demand as an adjudicator. She has been pianist for the Northern Virginia Suzuki Music School led by world-renown violin teacher Ronda Cole for over a decade. Ms. Kim has been sought-after as an accompanist, working additionally with cellists under National Symphony Orchestra Principal Cellist David Hardy. She has been invited to be on the panel of judges for “Loudoun’s Got Talent.” Ms. Kim has conducted, directed, and managed numerous stage productions, performances, musicals, and pageants. She was honored as a grant recipient from Northern Virginia Music Teachers Association and Jordan Kitts for continued studies in music. She is the 2019 recipient of the Rosalia and Emil Molodietzky Teacher Award and was nominated in 2019 and 2021 as President for Northern Virginia Music Teachers Association. Ms. Kim holds active positions as church pianist. She currently serves as co-chair of the Northern District Auditions committee.
Ms. Kim received her Bachelor of Art from the University of Maryland (College Park) as an engineering scholarship student, studying architecture and attending UCLA for part of her studies. She received her Master of Music in Piano Pedagogy from Catholic University (Washington, DC), under the guidance of Barbara English Maris, studying piano with James Litzelman, Luiz de Moura Castro, and Thomas Mastroianni, student of Beveridge Webster at The Juilliard School. She studied conducting with National Philharmonic Maestro Piotr Gajewski. She was a doctoral candidate under Dr. Mastroianni until she postponed it to raise family. She has written papers and given presentations to music teachers. She continues her education attending conventions, workshops, and master classes such as those of legendary pianist Leon Fleisher.