Taiwanese-born pianist Gloria Chien has one of the most diverse musical lives as a noted performer, concert presenter, and educator. She made her orchestral debut at the age of sixteen with the Boston Symphony Orchestra with Thomas Dausgaard, and she performed again with the BSO with Keith Lockhart. She was subsequently selected by the The Boston Globe as one of its Superior Pianists of the year, “who appears to excel in everything.” In recent seasons, she has performed as a recitalist and chamber musician at Alice Tully Hall, the Library of Congress, the Phillips Collection, the Dresden Chamber Music Festival, and the National Concert Hall in Taiwan. She performs frequently with the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center. In 2009, she launched String Theory, a chamber music series in Chattanooga, Tennessee that has become one of the region’s premier classical music presenters.  The following year she was appointed Director of the Chamber Music Institute at Music@Menlo, a position she held for the next decade. In 2017, she joined her husband, violinist Soovin Kim, as artistic director of the Lake Champlain Chamber Music Festival in Burlington, Vermont. The duo became artistic directors at Chamber Music Northwest in Portland, OR in 2020. Most recently, she released two albums - her Gloria Chien LIVE from the Music@Menlo LIVE label and Here With You with acclaimed clarinetist Anthony McGill on Cedille Records.

Chien studied extensively at the New England Conservatory of Music with Wha Kyung Byun and Russell Sherman. She is Artist-in-Residence at Lee University in Cleveland, Tennessee, and she is a Steinway Artist.

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LCCMF founder and Artistic Director Soovin Kim is an exciting violinist who built on the early successes of his prize-winning years to emerge as a mature and communicative artist. He enjoys a broad musical career regularly performing Bach sonatas and Paganini caprices for solo violin, sonatas for violin and piano ranging from Beethoven to Ives, and new world-premiere works almost every season. When he was 20 years old Mr. Kim captured first prize at the Paganini International Violin Competition, and subsequently received the Henryk Szeryng Career Award, an Avery Fisher Career Grant, and a Borletti-Buitoni Trust Award. He performed with the Philadelphia Orchestra and the San Francisco, Dallas, Baltimore, and Indianapolis Symphonies as well as major orchestras in Paris, Rome, Prague, Moscow, and Seoul. Among his many commercial recordings are his “thrillingly triumphant” (Classic FM Magazine) disc of Paganini’s demanding 24 Caprices. He immersed himself in the string quartet literature for 20 years as the 1st violinist of the Johannes Quartet, and now performs in the Chien-Kim-Watkins Trio with pianist Gloria Chien and cellist Paul Watkins.

Soovin Kim is the founder and artistic director of the Lake Champlain Chamber Music Festival (LCCMF) in Burlington, Vermont. The University of Vermont recognized his contributions to the community by bestowing an honorary doctorate upon him in 2015. Mr. Kim devotes much of his time to his passion for teaching at the New England Conservatory and the Yale School of Music.