Sunbin Kim

At the age of four, prior to receiving any musical training, Sunbin Kim composed his first short songs on piano. At age 8, in his first public recital, Sunbin premiered twenty-six of his own compositions for piano and string chamber orchestra at Seoul's Opus Hall.

Sunbin has been recognized seven times in the ASCAP Morton Gould Young Composers Competition. He was a finalist in 2000, at the age of ten, and has since won awards in 2002, 2003, 2006, and 2007. He received Honorable Mention in 2004 and 2005. In 2004, he also won the National Guild of Community Schools of the Arts/Hartt School Community Division's Young Composers Award.

In 2005, Sunbin won the Bradshaw-Buono International Piano Competition which resulted in a performance at Carnegie's Weill Recital Hall. He was also elected to receive the 2005 New Jersey Governor's Award for Arts Education in music composition.

In 2006, Sunbin was also a winner of the international North/South Consonance Composers Competition for Aphorisms, a sonata for solo oboe composed for Sarah Davol which resulted in a New York City premiere of the piece by Ms. Davol in May of that year. The Pike's Peak Young Composers Competition also honored him with a First Place award for his solo piano piece, Elegy; he received Honorable Mention for Aphorisms in the same competition.

Sunbin has studied composition with Dr. Stephen Sacco at the Mannes College of Music and is now a student with Ira Taxin at the Juilliard School of Music's Preparatory Division. He studies piano privately with Thomas Osuga. Sunbin is completing his junior year at Lakeland Regional High School in Wanaque, New Jersey. For the past two summers, Sunbin attended Boston University's Tanglewood Institute's Young Composers Program. In the summer of 2007, Sunbin will be the youngest invitee to attend the prestigious ISAM Summer Institute for composition in Michelstadt, Germany.

Sunbin's current projects include Rondo for Orchestra and Sonnets for Piano.