Bader & Overton Canadian Piano Competition House Program 2023

Kyung Kim
Associate Professor of Piano at Western
University’s Don Wright Faculty of Music Dr.
Kyung Kim has performed widely to critical
acclaim in concerto, recital and chamber music
performances, including appearances with the
Winnipeg Symphony and Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra, among others.
Her performances have been featured on CBC, Chicago’s Live from
WFMT, Minnesota Public Radio, Wisconsin Public Television, Wisconsin
Public Radio’s Live from the Chazen, and the Korean Broadcasting
Corporation. Formerly Chair of the Keyboard Division and Associate
Professor at the University of Minnesota Twin Cities, her prize-winning
students recently made debuts at Royal Albert Hall, Kennedy Centre,
and Carnegie Hall.
Stéphane Lemelin
Pianist Stéphane Lemelin is well-known to
audiences throughout Canada and regularly tours
in the United States, Europe and Asia as soloist
and chamber musician.
His repertory is vast, with a predilection for the German Classical
and Romantic literature and a particular affinity for French music, as
evidenced by his more than twenty-five recordings on the Atma and
Naxos labels.
Stéphane Lemelin studied with Yvonne Hubert in Montreal, Karl-Ulrich
Schnabel in New York, and received both Bachelor’s and Master’s
degrees from the Peabody Conservatory as a student of Leon Fleisher.
He holds the Doctor of Musical Arts degree from Yale University.
He is currently Professor of Piano and Chair of the Department of
Performance at the Schulich School of Music of McGill University.
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