Kimberly Jeong gives cello lessons for the music department and is the Interim Director of Strings.
Korean Canadian cellist Kimberly Jeong strongly believes in the inherent power of music and its unique ability to connect with people transcending culture, age, race, and socioeconomic background. She is a strong advocate of this belief, and she feels honored to have the ability to share her story through the music that she loves with her audiences, students, and community members.
Jeong holds degrees from the Eastman School of Music (BM), Yale School of Music (MM) and the Royal Conservatory of the Hague (AD). As an active recitalist and a chamber musician, she has given numerous performances in venues across the United States of America, Canada, and Europe, such as the Avery Fisher Hall, National Sawdust, Yale Center for British Art, Richard Bradshaw Amphitheatre, Koerner Hall, Arts and Letters Club, De Nationale Opera, Societa Dante Alighieri Vienna, Smetana House, Prague National Theatre, and Wigmore Hall, among others. Her performances have been broadcasted on Brava TV, CBC Radio, and BBC, as well as recording projects by Chandos and Linn Records. She has received mentorship and worked with eminent artists such as Pinchas Zukerman, Martin Beaver, Nicholas Mann, Michael Tree, Michel Strauss, Steven Doane, Andres Diaz, and Julia Lichten, as well as members of the Ying, Tokyo, Brentano, and Takács string quartet. Additionally, she worked with distinguished composers such as John Adams, Hans Abrahamsen, John Harbison and Steven Stucky.
As an educator, Jeong has taught in several educational initiatives including Yale Music in Schools Initiative and Ravinia’s Reach Teach Play Program. Jeong is interested in the interdisciplinary arts and communicating with new audiences through various mediums. While working as a research assistant at the Yale Center for British Art, she has given performances in special conjunction with exhibitions at the Yale University Art Gallery and the Yale Center for British Art, as well as the Memorial Art Gallery in Rochester, New York.
Currently, she is a doctoral candidate at Northwestern University under the guidance of professor Hans Jørgen Jensen.