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Jin Hi Kim (b. Incheon, South Korea, February 6, 1957) is a komungo player and composer.

Trained in traditional Korean music in South Korea, Kim emigrated in 1980 to the United States where she became interested in music from other cultures. She studied the Chinese guqin (an instrument believed to be related to the komungo) and began to investigate the possibility of combining her music with the musics of other cultures.

This initial interest led to extensive work in cross-cultural performance and improvisation, which has remained a consistent imperative in her work. She has performed and recorded with musicians from Senegal, Australia, India, Japan, Vietnam, and many other nations, often with her cross-cultural ensemble No World Improvisations. She has worked with Joseph Celli, the Kronos Quartet, Malcolm Goldstein, Derek Bailey, Evan Parker, Henry Kaiser, Eugene Chadbourne, and many other prominent figures in new music.

Her compositions have as their central focus the exploration of the Korean concept of shigumse (or shigimse), meaning "living tones." Thus, her works use newly developed forms of notation to indicate various types of vibrato, pitch bends, etc. in order that, as in Korean traditional music, each musical tone is given a unique expression and development.

With instrument builder Joseph Yanuziello, Kim developed and plays the world's only electric komungo.

Kim lives in Connecticut and serves as Artistic Director of International Performing Arts, Inc.

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