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Ben Kim

Pianist Ben Kim, hailed for Mozart and Chopin performances, is often active in Germany, where he was partly trained. He took first prize at Germany's ARD Music Competition in 2006. Kim was born in 1983 in Portland, Oregon. He has also used the name Benjamin Kim. He began piano lessons at age five with Dorothy Fields. By eight, he was giving solo recitals, and he made his first appearance with a symphony orchestra at 12. Kim received dual degrees from the Peabody Conservatory (at 20), where he studied with Leon Fleisher, and Johns Hopkins University, where he received an Outstanding Recent Graduate Award. He went on at Peabody for an Artist Diploma, studying with Fleisher and Yong Hi Moon. He was chosen as one of seven pianists to attend Martha Argerich's International Piano Academy Lake Como in Italy. Kim rounded out his studies at the Universität der Künste in Berlin, where his teacher was Klaus Hellwig. He entered the International Frederick Chopin Piano Competition in Warsaw in 2005 and the Klavier-Festival Ruhr in Germany in 2008; some of his performances at those events were released on recordings. Kim began to attract high-profile concert dates in the late 2000s decade, including a debut with the Olympus Chamber Players at Carnegie Hall in New York in 2009 and a concert at Suntory Hall in Tokyo in 2010. His solo debut came in 2012 with an album of Chopin works. In 2017, he earned the LOTTO Career Development Prize from Germany's Rheingau Music Festival. With the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra in 2020, he conducted and played as the soloist on a Challenge Classics album of Mozart piano concertos. He has appeared at such major halls as the Musikverein in Vienna, the Gewandhaus in Leipzig, and the Kennedy Center in New York, with orchestras such as the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Baltimore Symphony, and the Seoul Philharmonic. Kim returned on Challenge Classics in 2023 and 2024 with two more Mozart concerto releases, the latter devoted to the composer's first concertos in Vienna. In addition to playing the piano, he is an expert Italian cook.
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