Grace Kim is an eighth grade honor student at Millburn Middle School. She started playing the piano at the age of four and a half and has been studying piano for eight years. Grace is a student of Sondra Tammam of Westfield. She is the winner of multiple awards from various competitions. Grace’s musical achievements include four years of outstanding performance at the New Jersey Music Educators Association’s (MEA) annual auditions. This year, she won second place in the concerto competition and in 2001 was a third place winner. In 2000, she won first place in concerto and second in their solo competition for two consecutive years. Grace was a third place winner two years in a row at the New York Music Competition, which is sponsored by The Korea Central Daily newspaper. She was a winner of the Cecilian Annual Young Artist Piano Competition in 1999 and won honorable mention for her piano solo in 2000. At the New Jersey Music Teachers’ Association competition, Grace won third place in 2000 and second place in 1996. During the past three years, Grace was a winner at the Piano Teachers Society of America (PTSA) Multi-Talent Search category. At the winners’ recital, she played a violin solo and accompanied her brother on the cello. Also, for three consecutive years she won Honorable Mention at the Piano Teachers Congress of New York. Grace was a finalist in the concerto competition of the Young Pianist Competition of New Jersey in 2001 and 2000 and won second place in their 1999 solo division. Grace performed nine times in Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie, and also played in winners’ recitals at Cami Hall and Steinway Hall in New York. Aside from playing the piano, Grace plays violin and oboe. She studies the violin with Miss Kim who teaches in Warren and has won the Young Artist Competition for Strings in 2000. Currently, she is Concert Mistress of the New Jersey Youth Symphony (NJYS) and will be performing in their winter concert this December. In addition, Grace has been selected as a recipient of the Bergen Scholarship Audition for violin at the NJYS. Besides playing instruments, Grace enjoys playing tennis and volleyball with her brother. Grace’s future plans are to become a lawyer and help people in need.

Grace Kim was a winner in the 2002 Fourth Annual Andrew De Grado Piano Competition in the soloist category with her performance of Images Book I, No. 3 Movement by Debussy.