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Gloria Kim
Applied Music, Voice, Musicianship Skills, Keyboard Instruction
e-mail: gloriaskim@yahoo.com
Dr. Gloria Seunghee Kim became a College of the Canyons music faculty member in 2002 and currently instructs Applied Voice, Musicianship Skills, and Keyboard Instruction classes. She earned her Doctor of Musical Arts degree in vocal performance from the University of Southern California with extended studies in music history, church music, and chorale conducting as the minor fields. She also possesses a Master of Music degree from Arizona State University, and a Bachelor of Music degree from Seoul National University in Seoul, Korea. Her musical training started with piano at the age of five. While continuing her keyboard studies and becoming an outstanding piano performer and a winner of many major piano competitions and being admitted to the music department of the SNU with the top piano score, she also began her vocal training and continued pursuing her degrees in voice in Korea and the United States.
Her teaching career spans more than twenty five years. In addition to private teaching, Dr. Kim has instructed voice for undergraduate and graduate levels at the University of Southern California, Shepherd University, Antelope Valley College, and the College of the Canyons. In addition to voice instruction, her teaching experience includes voice class, diction, vocal literature, vocal pedagogy, cantata and oratorio, music history and theory, musicianship skills, piano, and chorale conducting. As well as her teaching experience, she has served as a church accompanist for twelve years from the age of twelve and directed for college, community, and church choirs for children, youth, and adult groups for twenty-two years.
Dr. Kim has appeared in many concerts in U.S. cities including Los Angeles, San Diego, Washington D.C., New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore, and San Antonio. She has also appeared internationally in concerts in Poland, Canada, and Korea. As well as her seven recitals, her performing career has expanded to a soloist, concert singer, and oratorio and opera singer. Her solo repertoire includes Mozart’s Mass in C minor and C Major Motet, Vivaldi’s Magnificat, J.S. Bach’s Mass in B minor, Handel’s Messiah, Mendelssohn’s Incomplete Mass, and Rossini’s Stabat Mater among other major works. In 1992 and 1993, she was awarded second place at the Young Artists Vocal Audition of the National Association of Teachers of Singing. In 2000, she debuted at Dorothy Chandler Pavilion at Los Angeles Music Center as a soprano soloist for the Messiah with the Los Angeles Sinfonia Orchestra. Dr. Kim has also performed with the Antelope Valley Symphony Orchestra, the Los Angeles Korean Philharmonic Orchestra, and many other chamber orchestras. Her operatic roles encompass Pamina in the Magic Flute, Euridice in the Orfeo ed Euridice and appearances in Gianni Schicchi, Sour Angelica, The Queen of the Spades, Vanessa, Lucia di Lammermoor, Aida, Grendel, Don Carlo, and Tannhäuser. In addition to solo performing activities, she presently performs with the Los Angeles Master Chorale and the Los Angeles Opera Chorus.
Dr. Kim is an active member of the National Association of Teachers of Singing, the College Music Society, the Music Teachers National Association, the Music Teachers Association of California, the Music Association of California Community Colleges, and the Southwestern Youth Music Festival.
