Shea-Kim duo
The award winning Shea-Kim duo was formed in 2014 by husband and wife duo Brendan Shea and Yerin Kim. Since then, they have competed internationally and toured the world, performing in Belgium, Italy, Canada, South Korea, and the United States. Their awards include the Ackerman Chamber Music Award and Gold Medal at the Manhattan International Music Competition. Their performances have been broadcasted on Klara Continuo in Belgium, PBC in Seoul, and WUFT Classic in the USA. Their debut performance in Seoul, South Korea was recorded live and published by Ark Studio in 2016. Their second album, “The Sound and the Fury”, was released in November 2021 by Blue Griffin records. Their newest album “Touch” is due to be released in the fall of 2025.
The duo is also actively involved in promoting chamber music to a broader community and audiences, and regularly perform sensory friendly concerts that provide high quality chamber music for individuals and families with autism. The duo also regularly appears at several notable music festivals, including the Annapolis Chamber Music Festival, the Anchorage Chamber Music Festival, the Harborfront Chamber Music Festival, and are co-founders and co-artistic directors of Chamber Music in the Bend.
Yerin Kim is Director of Keyboard Studies and Director of University Student Research at Central Washington University. Brendan Shea is Visiting Professor of Violin, Chamber Music, and Orchestral Studies at Central Washington University. He was most recently the concertmaster of the Boise Philharmonic and Langroise Trio Artist-in-Residence at the College of Idaho. They also previously lived and worked in South Bend, Indiana where Shea was also a violinist in the Euclid quartet and Professor at Indiana University South Bend, and both Kim and Shea were on the faculty at the University of Notre Dame, and are co-founders and co-artistic directors of Chamber Music in the Bend.
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Brendan Shea, violin
Brendan Shea is an award winning violinist and chamber musician. His chamber music awards were won when he played with the Wasmuth Quartet and include the Bronze Medal at the Osaka International Chamber Music Competition, Gold Medal and Audience Award at the Chesapeake International Chamber Music Competition, Grand Prize at the Coleman Chamber Music Competition, and Silver at the Fischoff International Chamber Music Competition. As a founding member of the Wasmuth (now Verona) Quartet, he performed across the United States, Germany, and Japan.
Brendan has performed with many world class ensembles and performers. As a soloist he has performed with orchestras in Washington D.C, Brussels, Sendai, Indianapolis, and South Bend. His award winning duo, the Shea-Kim Duo, has competed internationally and performed recitals in Asia, Europe and North America. Their awards include the Ackerman Chamber Music Award and Gold Medal at the Manhattan International Music Competition. Their second CD, The Sound and the Fury, was released by Blue Griffin Records in November of 2021. He premiered Frederic Rzewski’s Night, Death, and Devil with the Emmy Award winning 8th Blackbird. He has been a finalist and semi-finalist at the Queen Elisabeth, Isang-Yun, Seoul, Sibelius, and Carl Nielsen, and has taken first place with Honors at the Glazunov International Competition in Paris. Brendan also served as concertmaster of the Boise Philharmonic and Langroise Trio Artist-in-Residence at the College of Idaho.
In addition to his performance career, Brendan is also a sought after violin teacher and chamber musician. He has been a guest violin professor at the Oberlin Conservatory, and the Mahanaim School in New York. He was on the faculty at Indiana University, South Bend for five years where he was a violinist with the Euclid Quartet. He was a two year visiting professor of violin at the University of Notre Dame. He has given masterclasses across the United States at many different universities, such as Michigan State University, Central Washington University, Texas A&M Corpus Christi, and University of Nebraska. He continues to teach and perform at several prestigious summer festivals, including the Encore Chamber Music Festival and theZephyr Chamber Music Festival. In 2017 he founded the summer chamber orchestra intensive at Indiana University South Bend, and is co-founder of Chamber Music in the Bend with Yerin Kim. He is currently serving as Visiting Professor of Violin, Chamber Music, and Orchestral Studies at Central Washington University.
Brendan has degrees from: Oberlin (Bachelor of Music and Artist Diploma); Indiana University at Bloomington (Master of Music); Stony Brook University (Doctor of Musical Arts). He currently performs on a violin and bow made for him by Sam Zygmuntowicz and a bow by Delphine Petitjean.
For more information and videos of Brendan’s solo works, visit Brendansheaviolin.com
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Yerin Kim, Piano
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Praised by the International Piano Magazine as “pianist of beautiful finesse and golden tone”, pianist Yerin Kim is a recitalist, chamber musician, and educator. She has given concerts in various festivals and recitals in major venues internationally, including The Kennedy Center in Washington D.C., Carnegie Hall in New York, Place Flagey in Brussels and Rolston Hall at the Banff Centre for the Arts in Canada.
Her solo debut album "First and Last Words", works by Robert Schumann and Alfred Schnittke, was released by the Sheva Collection Label in Spring 2019. Phoenix Classical, one of the foremost promoters of Classical recordings across the world, remarked on the album as “powerful and engaging, very poetic and expressive with some truly original interpretive insights, all performed with a great technique”. The album has garnered critical acclaim from major classical music magazines, including the International Piano Magazine, Fanfare Magazine, and The Wholenote Magazine.​ Partnering with violinist Brendan Shea as the Shea-Kim Duo, they perform a wide range of music for a broad audience across the world and have gained critical acclaim from major magazines and critiques; “the duo of Shea and Kim work exquisitely as a team, overlapping their lines so seamlessly they become inseparable” (Strings Magazine), “the duo creates a rich and intimate atmosphere, as they navigate the thrills and spill” (BBC Music Magazine), and “this duo is very reluctant to hold back, they frankly play the bejeezus out of it” (American Record Guide). Their debut performance in Seoul, South Korea was recorded live and published by Ark Studio, and since then have released “The Sound and the Fury” (2022) and “All Roads” (2023) under Blue Griffin label. Their latest album “Touch” will be released in winter of 2024.
As a regular lecturer, Kim performs and gives talks on promoting awareness of the power of music in the community that it serves, especially in the field of music and medicine. She has been invited to give lectures for prominent educators and students at Indiana University, Bloomington, the Nantucket Project, Music Teachers National Association, the Universal Arts Institute in Seoul, South Korea, among others. She founded a Sensory Friendly Music and Autism Concert Series that has served autistic individuals and communities in New York, Indiana, and Washington state. She also founded and Co-directs Chamber Music in the Bend with her husband and violinist Brendan Shea. Her passion for pre-college educational and community engagements lead to founding the CWU Summer Literacy for Youth in Music, a music camp designed for children of migrant families of Washington state and local children to be taught by CWU collegiate music educators trained under the guidance of CWU faculty.
She also founded and directs CWU PianoFest, a piano festival and competition where some of the most talented pre-college and college students of the West Coast are invited to CWU campus to perform.
Kim currently teaches at Central Washington University as the Director of Keyboard Studies and promotes academic student research as the Director of Office University Research. She also performs and teaches at the Zephyr Chamber Music Festival in Piedmont and Liguria, Italy. Prior to joining Central Washington University, she taught at the University of Notre Dame and Indiana University, Bloomington. She also enjoys pre-college teaching and has taught talented young students from pre-college programs at Indiana University, Bloomington and State University of New York Stony Brook. Kim holds a Double Degree in Piano Performance and Psychology from Oberlin conservatory and college, a Master of Music from Indiana University Bloomington, and Doctor of Musical Arts from State University of New York, Stony Brook. Her mentors and teachers include Hans Boepple, Seunghae Choi, Haewon Song, Arnaldo Cohen, Jean-Louis Haguenauer, and Gilbert Kalish.
For more information and videos of Yerin’s solo works, visit yerinkim.com
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