About

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Yeeun Kim is a jazz pianist, arranger, composer, educator, singer-songwriter, and pipe organist from South Korea. She holds a Doctor of Musical Arts in Performance with a concentration in Jazz Studies at the University of North Texas. She also earned her master’s degree in Jazz Studies from UNT. 

She is a former Teaching Fellow and former jazz pianist in the prestigious One O’Clock Lab band, having played for the band in 2020, and was a selectee in the 2022 Sisters in Jazz Collegiate Combo Competition for jazz piano. She actively performs in the Dallas-Fort Worth area in various performances such as the Sundance Square Music Series, Fever Dallas Jazz Concert, and Flamenco Dallas Festival alongside legendary Flamenco saxophonist, Jorge Pardo. 

As a leader of Lydian Blue Jazz Group, she is in charge of the concert productions, recruiting, and directing small jazz ensembles for Candlelight Jazz Concerts at Fever company, a global live-entertainment discovery tech platform - that specializes in multimedia exhibitions such as Van Gogh digital art exhibition. Along with her formal musical training and performing experience in jazz, she has explored various musical genres and built musical versatility during her works including arranging big bands, classical chamber ensembles, commercial jingles, and sacred choirs, and also performing live & recording sessions for K-pop and gospel groups. From these experiences, she organizes music programs and events in various musical genres and instrumentation. 

Currently, she is the music director at Redeemer Lutheran Church. As an adjunct professor, she directs a jazz ensemble at Tarrant County College-Northwest and teaches commercial piano at Dallas College-Cedar Valley.