Lucie Kim, age 16, is an eleventh grader in the Pianist Program Conservatory at Orange County School of the Arts. Lucie began taking piano lessons at age six and made her Carnegie Hall debut at age nine. 

Lucie has won top prizes in numerous piano competitions, including First Prize at the Elvin Samuel McGaughey Music Foundation Glendale Competition, Gold Medal at the Southern California Junior Bach Competition, First Prize at the San Jose International Piano Competition along with the “Most Promising Young Talent Award,” First Prize at the Steinway Junior Piano Competition, and First Prize in the Carmel Klavier International Piano Competition. She is a two time First Prize winner at the Los Angeles International Liszt Competition, and was a Silver Medalist at the quadrennial Virginia Waring International Junior Solo Competition. More recently, she received First Prize at the LISMA International Music Competition and First Prize at the Four Notes International Competition. 

At the age of 12, Lucie independently organized and performed in a full solo benefit concert for Children’s Hospital of Orange County (CHOC). Since then, she has been actively using her passion for music by attending and performing at fundraising events to support the hospital as a CHOC ambassador.

Lucie also gave a Tedx Talk titled “Music Begins with a New Breath.” She talks about how breathing affects music performance, and can influence the quality, mood and level of audience engagement. 

In her spare time, Lucie loves to play golf with her friends and family.