Search - Yun Kyong Kim (organ) :: Of Another Time: Yun Kyong Kim plays the historic 1920 Austin Organ (St. Mary's Catholic Church, Dayton, Ohio)

When one hears the vintage Austin pipe organ in the richly resonant space of St. Mary's Church in Dayton, Ohio, it is not difficult to be transported back to 1920s musical America. Along with Ernest M. Skinner and other organ builders of that era, the Austin Organ Company of Hartford, Connecticut, flourished at creating orchestrally conceived romantic; organs, characterized by bold yet smooth diapasons, imitative reed voices, and a wide variety of flutes and strings. This program seeks to enable the listener to explore and relive these unique sonorities of a bygone era. Praised by concertgoers as an artist who stretches the limits of the instrument, concert organist Yun Kyong Kim is passionate about bringing musically diverse programs to her audiences and is in great demand as an organ and harpsichord recitalist. Ms. Kim was born in Korea and moved to the United States at the age of sixteen. After early organ study with Carole Terry at the University of Washington, she received her doctoral degree in organ performance with minors in early music and music theory in 2005 from Indiana University at Bloomington, where her principal teachers were Christopher Young and Elisabeth Wright. She has also studied and performed in North Germany and France, and made her French debut in Paris at Sainte-Clotilde in 1997. Dr. Kim was awarded First Prize at the 1993 Northwest Regional Competition for Young Organists, and was Third Prize winner at the 2000 National Young Artists Competition in Organ Performance at the AGO National Convention in Seattle. Recent engagements have included solo performances at Washington National Cathedral, performing arts series at Ohio University and Miami University, and as a featured recitalist at the Region V Convention of the American Guild of Organists and two National Conventions of the Organ Historical Society. She is presently on the music faculty at Sinclair Community College and serves as organist and choirmaster at Christ Episcopal Church in Dayton, Ohio. Producer s Note: This recording utilizes no compression or limiting, thus preserving the dynamic range of the original source. The audible hiss that may be heard is the sound of the winding system in the 1920 Austin organ. No attempt has been made to reduce or eliminate this noise, as it was the desire of the producer to fully capture the sound of this vintage instrument in its natural acoustical environment.