In Hye Kim, soprano, is renowned as one of the best singers in Korea. Her career is in full bloom. She studied under Prof. Daniel Ferro at Juilliard in New York, earning her masters and doctorate degrees. While still studying for her doctorate she won prizes in the Lucrezia Bori Award Competition, the Chile International Competition, the Brazil Rio De Janeiro Contest, and the Lincoln Center Commemoration Award Competition. The New York Times called her 1988 Carnegie Hall performance in Haendel's Messiah , "Best of all was InHye Kim, who pealed forth very prettily indeed in the soprano part, and evinced considerable stylishness and musicality".
An active and masterly soprano, she has performed on four continents with fine orchestras including the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra under Yehudi Menuhin, the Mozart Chamber Orchestra of Vienna, the Bolshoi Teatre Orchestra of Moscow, NDR Orchestra in Hannover, the Telemann Chamber Orchestra, the Seoul Philharmonic Orchestra, the Zagreb Philharmonic, the Sinfonietta Slovocca, the Wyoming Orchestra and the Juilliard Orchestra.
She is now one of the most frequently sought after lyric sopranos for operatic roles in Korea. Her performances include Il Trovatore, I pagliacci, La Traviata, Tosca, La Boheme, Der Fledermaus, Cavalleria Rusticana, Madama Butterfly, Otello, Carmen, and Iolanta by Tchaikovsky.
She also concertizes frequently in such productions as the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra's Sejong Cultural Center performance of Beethoven's Symphony No. 9 Choral and the Seoul Philharmonic's Special Gala Concert of Mozart's Le Nozze di Figaro which was reviewed by the radio broadcasting and the music magazines as one of the most passionate performances ever. She successfully made her debut onthe European stage in 1997. She has performed with the Mozart's Orchestra at the Vienna National Concert House and the Musik-Verein. She also appeared in the Finkenstein Festival and sang Pergolesi's Stabat Mater with the Sinfonietta Slovocca in the Budapest Spring Festival in 1999.
Her performances include Verdi's Requiem, R. Strauss' The Last Four Songs, Mahler's Symphony No.4, Wagner's Tannhauser and Tristan und Isolde, and Puccini's and Verdi's Opera Gala Concert with KBS Orchestra under DimitryKitaenko. In 2000 she was invited by the mayor of Rome, Italy to perform the Korean opera L'Eroico Yi Sunsin written by Italian composer Guiseppe Mazzuca. The two major Italian newspapers both reviewed this as a significant event for modern Korean classical music. The Japanese newspaper Nihon Keijaiparticularly reviewed the opera with high praise. As a result of her inspiring performance in the opera, Prof. Kim has been invited back to the Japanese stage many times. She sang in Bach's Matthew's Passion at Symphony Hall in Japan. She has performed with the Russian Bolshoi Chorus and the St. Petersburg Kapelle Choir in 2002~2003.
In 2005-6,shewas featured in < Il Trovarore> in 20th Anniversary of Seoul Metropolitan Opera, in＜Iolanta＞ in Opera Festival both in Seoul and Moscow. In 2007 she is decorated as a "TheArtist of the Year" by Chaumet International of France and The Korean Artists Association. She was featured in＜Un Ballo Maschera＞ with Seoul Metropolitan opera, in＜Carmen＞ with Beseto Opera, in ＜Aleko＞ with The Life and Dream Opera, in ＜Aida＞ with Beseto Opera cooperated with Roma Teatre del'Opera, in ＜La Boheme＞ with Daegu Opera House Production.She was invited by The Greece International Music Competition Comittee in Athens and a Joint Production of Europe ConcertTour of Sarajevo and Vienna as a guest artist under the Baton of Maestro Antal Barnas.
In 2008, she was featured with The Orchestral Requiem as a world premier in Beethoven Festival in Warsaw at Chopin Hall, and telecasted in Europe as well as in Poland. This recording will be worldwide released by Naxos. She had a Concert as a guest artist invited by New Nippon Steel Corporation, and will be featured in Opera ＜Aleko＞ in Russia , in＜Carmen＞ in Seoul, in the Openning Concert of Henryk gorecki Symphony no. 3 by KoreamSymphony Orchestra in the Annual Symphonic Festival by Korean Arts Center.
As a dedicated teacher, she has consistently devoted herself to serious musical scholarship programs, unearthing and performing many scores that have previously been neglected. She has one recording of the Korean lyrics written by a North Korean composer SoonNam Kim＜Longing become the One＞ (Universal) :＜Romance＞ (Good International) with the Bolshoi Teatre Orchestra : She releases her next recording＜Amazing Grace＞, with Bolshoi Choir (Freamshare):＜My First Dream＞of the works by Strauss, Wagner and Alban Berg with NDR Orchestra in Hannover (Dreamshare).
She is currently professor of Vocal Music at Seoul National University.
