Our 2025 Exhibit
Our special exhibit featuring pieces from the museum's Marian Anderson costume collection is OPEN!
Earthplace @ the Danbury Museum!
We're so pleased to welcome Earthplace back to the Danbury Museum on Friday, August 22 at 10:30! They will be bringing some native Connecticut critters and talking about local flora and fauna. Join us for this fun, free, and informative program held in the museum's Huntington Hall. This program is open to all, but it is not a drop off event.
"Sell Your Old Gold" Fundraiser!
August 22 & 23 @ the Danbury Museum
Saturday, September 20 @ 2pm in the Marian Anderson Studio
Kai Pangune Kim, Pianist
Program
“Mother’s Love” Korean Song
Prelude Op 12 Prokofiev
32 Variations in C minor Beethoven
Fantasie Impromptu Chopin
Sonata « Waldstein » Op 23 Allegro con brio Beethoven
Nocturne Op.9 No.1 Chopin
Pour le Piano - Prelude Debussy
Sonata Op.35 Chopin
Weidmung Schumann/Liszt
La Campanella Paganini/Liszt
Childhood Memories Korean Song
KAI PANGUNE KIM is a distinguished soloist, chamber musician, and educator. Her solo engagements include the Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra, Sweden, the Wayne Symphony Orchestra in or of New Jersey, the Manhattan School of Music Symphony Orchestra, the Seoul Symphony Orchestra of New York, and the Garden State Symphony Orchestra. She has given countless solo recitals in halls such as the Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall, Merkin Hall at Lincoln Center, George Bush Library Museum at Texas A&M University, Seton Hall University, West Side Presbyterian Church Patron Series, Richter Arts, Steinway Piano Gallery, Watchung Arts Center, Phone Classic Hall, Seoul Korea, and various venues in Gothenburg, Sweden.
Kai Kim is co-founder of the Cosmos Piano Duo, and the Encore Piano Trio with whom she recorded works by Beethoven and Mendelssohn. She has coached chamber music at Drew University and Hartwick Music Festival. Currently, she owns Kai’s Piano Studio in Glen Rock, NJ and in Danbury, CT.
Some of her students have gone on to become concert pianists, composers, choir directors, and public-school music teachers. She is a member for the Annual Piano Competition of the Music Educators Association of NJ, and Performing Arts Chair at
Richter Association for the Arts in Danbury, CT.
She attended Gothenburg Conservatory in Sweden as a gifted student. After her family moved to the United States, she received her Bachelor and Master’s Degrees in Piano Performance from Manhattan School of Music and won the Manhattan School of Music Concerto Competition and YM-YWHA of Northern New Jersey Competition. She continued studying for the degree in Doctorate in Music Education at Teacher’s College, Columbia University.
Outside of music, Kai’s passion is gardening. In 2020, she and her husband provided a garden tour for the Mad Gardeners at their home.