Artist Professional Development Conversation: Creative Collaboration w/ Eunbi Kim
Jul 21, 2022
All individuals must show proof of vaccination against COVID-19 and matching identification to attend this event. If you are interested in attending this event in person, please read the full COVID Safety Policy carefully before visiting.
We invite artists to take part in our Artist Professional Development Conversations series, where we will share tips, insights, and best practices for navigating the business side of an artistic career. Each virtual session will feature a conversation with FTH staff members to discuss how to better support, present, and market an artistic practice.
Eunbi Kim is a pianist, co-founder of bespoken - a mentorship program for women in classical, contemporary, and jazz music - and a recent FTH Space Grant recipient. Join Eunbi and the FTH Arts Services Department as they talk about ways to collaborate as an individual artist to create new work, start an organization and best practices collaborating with presenters and arts organizations to further artistic projects and careers.
The conversation will be followed by a Q&A. The session is free but RSVP is required. Registered participants will receive a Zoom link prior to the event date.
About Eunbi Kim
Creating performances expressing dreamlike “liquid elegance” (Times Union), pianist Eunbi Kim curates programs compelling audiences to meditate on the parts of themselves that are deeply buried. Her intimate performances draw from collaborations with composers, filmmakers, and theater directors to create experiences beyond the boundaries of the piano recital format.
Most known as the creator of music-theater work Murakami Music, she has also recorded an album of Fred Hersch’s rare concert music, premiered works written for her by Emmy-nominated composer Daniel Bernard Roumain (DBR) and gave a TEDx talk in 2017. She has been presented at The Kennedy Center, Lincoln Center, Asia Society Texas Center, 92nd St Y, and many more.
Guided by personal experiences, her forthcoming album “It Feels Like” (Bright Shiny Things) confronts the multiplicity of truths behind memories, language, and identity and includes world premiere recordings of new works by Daniel Bernard Roumain (DBR), Pauchi Sasaki, Angélica Negrón, and Sophia Jani. She was recently named an Artist-in-Residence at WNYC’s The Greene Space to work on “It Feels Like,” a 4-night series inspired by the album that explores rituals of healing and disparate identities through music, performance, conversations, and food.
In 2018, Kim launched bespoken alongside co-founder Gina Izzo. bespoken is a music mentorship program providing mentorship, workshops, and strategies to elevate the visibility of women in classical, contemporary, and jazz industries. The program provides female-identifying and non-binary musicians with the necessary tools and leadership skills to create rewarding careers, develop their creative and artistic visions, and help them navigate any challenges they may face in the industry.
Kim holds a Master of Music degree from the Manhattan School of Music, where she also held a fellowship in the institution’s Center for Music Entrepreneurship. She currently serves on the Board of Trustees for New York Foundation for the Arts, is a graduate of  the 2020 American Express Women in Music Leadership Academy, and is co-founder of bespoken, a mentorship program for women in music.
All individuals must show proof of vaccination against COVID-19 and matching identification to attend this event. If you are interested in attending this event in person, please read the full COVID Safety Policy carefully before visiting.
We invite artists to take part in our Artist Professional Development Conversations series, where we will share tips, insights, and best practices for navigating the business side of an artistic career. Each virtual session will feature a conversation with FTH staff members to discuss how to better support, present, and market an artistic practice.
Eunbi Kim is a pianist, co-founder of bespoken - a mentorship program for women in classical, contemporary, and jazz music - and a recent FTH Space Grant recipient. Join Eunbi and the FTH Arts Services Department as they talk about ways to collaborate as an individual artist to create new work, start an organization and best practices collaborating with presenters and arts organizations to further artistic projects and careers.
The conversation will be followed by a Q&A. The session is free but RSVP is required. Registered participants will receive a Zoom link prior to the event date.
About Eunbi Kim
Creating performances expressing dreamlike “liquid elegance” (Times Union), pianist Eunbi Kim curates programs compelling audiences to meditate on the parts of themselves that are deeply buried. Her intimate performances draw from collaborations with composers, filmmakers, and theater directors to create experiences beyond the boundaries of the piano recital format.
Most known as the creator of music-theater work Murakami Music, she has also recorded an album of Fred Hersch’s rare concert music, premiered works written for her by Emmy-nominated composer Daniel Bernard Roumain (DBR) and gave a TEDx talk in 2017. She has been presented at The Kennedy Center, Lincoln Center, Asia Society Texas Center, 92nd St Y, and many more.
Guided by personal experiences, her forthcoming album “It Feels Like” (Bright Shiny Things) confronts the multiplicity of truths behind memories, language, and identity and includes world premiere recordings of new works by Daniel Bernard Roumain (DBR), Pauchi Sasaki, Angélica Negrón, and Sophia Jani. She was recently named an Artist-in-Residence at WNYC’s The Greene Space to work on “It Feels Like,” a 4-night series inspired by the album that explores rituals of healing and disparate identities through music, performance, conversations, and food.
In 2018, Kim launched bespoken alongside co-founder Gina Izzo. bespoken is a music mentorship program providing mentorship, workshops, and strategies to elevate the visibility of women in classical, contemporary, and jazz industries. The program provides female-identifying and non-binary musicians with the necessary tools and leadership skills to create rewarding careers, develop their creative and artistic visions, and help them navigate any challenges they may face in the industry.
Kim holds a Master of Music degree from the Manhattan School of Music, where she also held a fellowship in the institution’s Center for Music Entrepreneurship. She currently serves on the Board of Trustees for New York Foundation for the Arts, is a graduate of  the 2020 American Express Women in Music Leadership Academy, and is co-founder of bespoken, a mentorship program for women in music.
