Kwang-Wu Kim
Dr. Kwang-Wu Kim is an outspoken advocate for the arts and a proponent of the need to expand the role of the arts and creativity in society and rethink the way that artists are educated. He assumed the role of dean of the Herberger College of the Arts at Arizona State University in August 2006 and currently oversees a faculty and staff of more than 300, serving 3,000 students.
Dr. Kim holds a doctor of musical arts degree from the Peabody Institute of Johns Hopkins University where he was a student of legendary pianist Leon Fleisher and where he served for eight years as Fleisher’s teaching associate. He received his bachelor’s degree in philosophy, magna cum laude, from Yale University. Prior to his arrival in Arizona, Dr. Kim served as president of the Longy School of Music in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Formerly artistic and administrative director of El Paso Pro-Musica and co-founder of the El Paso Chamber Music Festival, he is a Professor of Music at Arizona State University and has held teaching positions at the Longy School of Music, the University of Texas at El Paso, the Peabody Institute, and Dickinson College.
A guest speaker at the Harvard University Graduate School of Education, he has been an invited panelist for the National Association of Schools of Music and a juror at the New England Conservatory, the Boston Conservatory, and the Boston Arts Academy. Dr. Kim has been guest faculty at the St. Lawrence String Quartet Chamber Music Seminar at Stanford University and at the Rotterdam Conservatory of Music. As a pianist, he made his solo debut at New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art and was presented at the Marlboro Music Festival by then artistic director Rudolf Serkin.
