WMI Plus At Home - DoYeon Kim with Shawn Choi
WMI PLUS At Home experiences bring music from around the world into the comfort of your home. Renowned artists share their lives, instruments, and stories from their personal environments, bringing an intimacy and uniqueness to each event. These talks are led by fellow musicians, journalists, and ethnomusicologists. Live captioning will be provided during the event.
We are thrilled to provide these events for FREE. If you can donate any amount while registering for this event, it will help us to keep the music playing. THANK YOU!
Monday, May 11, 2026 – 6 PM EST
WMI Plus At Home Experiences are free of charge, but you must register to reserve your space. You will receive an order confirmation once your registration is complete, which includes the link to the event. Only registered participants will receive email instructions on how to join the event via Zoom online. Bring your questions! The presentation will be followed by a Q&A session with attendees posting their questions electronically for live answers.
May is Asian/Pacific American Heritage Month!
Our WMI Plus At Home session will feature DoYeon Kim, a renowned artist celebrated for her innovative performances and compositions that incorporate the gayageum, a traditional Korean zither, into modern music. With extensive training in jazz, improvisation, and classical Korean music, she creates a unique musical language that reflects history, literature, and the human spirit.
Recognized as one of Seven Musicians Pushing Ancient Asian Instruments Into The Future (Grammy.com, 2021), she has received the Van Lier Fellowship (2023), and been nominated for a Korean Grammy Award (crossover category, 2018).
Shawn Choi, a native of Seoul, Korea, moved to New York in 2004 to pursue a master’s degree in Performing Arts Administration at New York University. He currently serves as the Director of Marketing at Kupferberg Center for the Arts at Queens College, where he oversees sales, marketing, publicity, and community outreach. In 2016, Shawn founded SORI Artists, a Korean artist agency dedicated to fostering connections between Korean traditional and contemporary music and American audiences. His efforts have been instrumental in showcasing Korea’s vibrant performing arts scene to audiences in the U.S. and worldwide.