Erica Ohm

Pianist Erica Ohm earned her Doctor of Musical Arts degree at Michigan State University after completing her Master's and Professional Studies in Music at the Manhattan School of Music. The first prize winner in competitions including Dong-A Music Concours (the most prestigious in Korea) and International Institute of Music Competition, Erica Ohm is an exciting pianist who is equally at home in the music of J. S. Bach and George Crumb. She is also committed to performing music of her contemporaries.
Since her acclaimed first recital in Seoul in 1993 she has performed as a soloist as well as an ensemble player throughout Korea, Japan, China, and the United States. The concert series of the complete Beethoven Violin Sonatas, with violinist Kyung Min Kim, and the complete Beethoven Piano Trios, with BINTRIO (cellist Hee Jin Paik, violinist Kyung Min Kim) have been featured on Korean radio and TV. Erica Ohm was chosen among "the best and the most active pianists in Korea" by Pianoforte (1997) and "the pianist of the month" by Piano International, Korea (June 2003.)
Currently a Professor of Piano at Sejong University in Korea, Erica Ohm has served on the faculty at Michigan State University School of Music, Seoul National University and Seoul High School of Music and Art.
Kimberly Schmidt A much sought-after pianist, Kimberly Schmidt has appeared on concert stages across America as recitalist, concerto soloist, accompanist, and chamber musician. Recitals in Chicago’s Orchestra Hall, New York’s Carnegie Recital Hall, and London’s Wigmore Hall launched a career that is unusually varied. His repertoire includes concerti of Brahms, Schumann, Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, Liszt, Tchaikovsky, Grieg, Berg, and Stravinsky. He has performed in major cities across America and has recorded on Stolat, Koch, and Musical Heritage labels. The list of artists with whom he collaborated includes Lucia Popp, Olaf Baer, Donald Peck, Suzanne Mentzer, and Bonita Boyd. Mr. Schmidt has for many years collaborated with his brother, choreographer Gordon Pierce Schmidt, most notably as composer of the award-winning ballet, The Gift of the Magi.