A native of Seoul, Korea, Kee-Hyun Kim is active as a soloist and as a chamber musician. He has participated in many prestigious festivals, including the Mostly Mozart Festival, the Kronberg Cello Master classes and Festival, the World Cello Congress III, Sarasota Music Festival, and Music Academy of the West, among others.

A winner of numerous awards and competitions both at home and abroad, Mr. Kim won top prizes in most of the major competitions in Korea, including the I-Hwa, Sae-gae, and Korean Newspaper Competitions, as well as placing second in the Pusan National Competition. He was the recipient of the Landgraf-von-Hessen prize at the 1999 Kronberg Cello Master classes, as well as taking second prize in the Hudson Valley String competition in 2002.

Mr. Kim has played at major concert venues in Korea, Japan, Germany, France, Italy, England, Israel, the United States, Canada, and Central and South America, both as a soloist, orchestral musician and most recently as a member of the Parker String Quartet, of which he is the founding cellist.

Mr. Kim received his B.M. at the New England Conservatory, as a student of Laurence Lesser. Currently he is pursuing his M.M. at the same institution, studying under Paul Katz, as a recipient of the Gregory Piatigorsky Scholarship for the 2005-2006 school year. Mr. Kim plays on an 1844 Giacomo Rivolta from Milan.