KIM, Clara

Clara Kim
Born in Seoul, currently lives in Brussels, Belgium, with her husband and daughter.

A graduate of the Composition Department at Yonsei University in Seoul, South Korea, she earned diplomas in harmony, counterpoint, fugue, and first prize in piano from Conservatoire Royal de Musique de Bruxelles, and completed a Master’s degree in composition with a violin concerto at Koninklijk Conservatorium Brussel.

She studied piano with Dominique Cornil and Sergei Leschenko, a former professor at the Leningrad Conservatory, and composition with Rafaël D’Haene, professor of composition and former director of the Royal Conservatory of Brussels. In the ever-changing landscape of contemporary music, she has developed her own compositional technique based on melody and structure. She taught composition at Yonsei University in Seoul, South Korea.