CV — Sharon Chohi Kim

performances

Murmurations at REDCAT; Creator/Composer/Performer; 2025
Diasporic Refractions with LA Phil Insight+GYOPO at Walt Disney Hall; Composer/Performer 2025
Howl at Human Resources LA curated by Ashton Phillips; Performer/Improviser 2025
Control + F with Elana Mann and Caroline Blaike for Art in Odd Places, Composer/Performer 2025
Soft Monuments Collaborative Exhibition with Nick McPhail at Maple St. Construct; 2025
The Plasticene with Synchromy at Debs Audubon Center, Collaborator/Performer 2025
Nothing Here is Entirely Foreign with Chantael Takeuchi at Oracle Egg; Creator/Composer/Performer 2025
Sunset on the LA River with Lauren Bon and Mouth Noise, Living Earth, 2025; Composer/Performer
Distance Duet with LA Phil Insight at LA Central Public Library, 2025; Performer/Improviser
Earth Ears: A Sonic Ritual with Long Beach Opera Angel’s Gate Cultural Center, 2024; Performer
Limbs performance with Daniel Paul Schubert at Go To Trade School, 2024; Performer/Improviser
Distance Duet by Carolyn Pennypacker Riggs, High Desert Test Sites, 2024; Performer/Improviser
“Fiber” performance at MOCA, Los Angeles, 2024; Creator/Composer/Choreographer
“Murmurations” for Democracy Sessions Scorebook, Wild Up and MOCA, 2024, Graphic Score Composer
Stimmung for Wild Up Democracy Sessions at MOCA, 2024; Performer
“Quantum Preludes” with Tania Candiani at Getty Center for Getty PST, 2024, Vocalist
“Distance Duet” composed by Carolyn Pennypacker Riggs at High Desert Test Sites, 2024; Performer
Earth Ears by Pauline Oliveros at Angels Gate Cultural Center with Long Beach Opera, 2024; Improviser
“Limbs” by Sharon Chohi Kim and Daniel Paul Schubert at Go To Trade School, 2024; Creator/Performer
Tangled with Patrick Shiroishi on dublab, 2024; Guest Performer/Interviewee
“Land’s End” Choir Concert for LA Choral Lab at AltaSea, 2024; Conductor/Composer
“Blossom” Choir Concert for LA Choral Lab, 2024; Conductor
“BURN REBLOOM” at Hermitage LA, 2024; Performer
“Posthuman Water Chorus” Premiere at FCCLA, 2024; Composer
Procession with Debra Scacco, Joel Garcia and Fulcrum Arts, 2023; Performer/Composer
As We Gather in collaboration with Elana Mann at UCSD Mandeville Gallery, 2023; Creator/Composer
The Recital with Long Beach Opera, 2023; Live Scorer/Composer/Performer
Hope is a Hammer collaboration with Elana Mann at HRLA, 2023; Creator/Composer/Producer
Apsis with L.A. Choral Lab, 2023; Composer/Conductor
We Might Appear As Forest Fires at Berggruen Institute, 2023; Composer/Performer
Heal Hear Here with LA Freewaves and Fulcrum Arts, 2023; Guest Performer
Ladies, Lair, Lake by Trulee Hall at REDCAT, 2023; Soloist
“Atmospheric River” conceived by Joel Garcia and Debra Scacco with Art in Common, 2023; Improviser
Giustino with Long Beach Opera at Museum of Latin American Art, 2023; “Fortuna”/Improviser
Requiem by Giuseppe Verdi with Los Angeles Master Chorale at Hollywood Bowl, 2023; Alto
Music for 18 Musicians by Steve Reich at Colburn School, 2023; Vocalist
Unstuckness Practice, a sound film in collaboration with Music For Your Inbox, 2022; Creator/Composer
Unprotected, a sound piece for Elana Mann’s horn for Epoch Gallery, 2022; Composer/Performer
LBO: On Display at Long Beach Museum of Art, 2022; Composer/Creator/Performer
The Sea Monster, a sound installation at MOLAA with Long Beach Opera,2022; Sound Artist
Unstuckness Practice at Neighborhood Unitarian Church, 2022; Creator/Composer/Producer
Rise and Fall, a collaborative composition with Theater Dybbuk, 2022; Composer/Producer
Hive Rise by Ash Fure at MOCA with Industry Opera Company, 2021; Performer
“Joy Boy” by Julius Eastman with LA Philharmonic at Ford Theatre, 2021; Soloist
Sweet Land by Du Yun and Raven Chacon with Industry Opera Company, 2020; “Wiindigo”/Improviser
Full Pink Moon by Pauline Oliveros with Opera Povera on Zoom, 2020; Improviser
Axis/Flux Marina Abramovic + MAI Exhibition at Sakip Sabanci Museum, 2020; Digital Performer
Dada Divas by Jacqueline Bobak at REDCAT, 2020; “Baroness Elsa”, Improviser
Proving Up by Missy Mazzoli with LA Opera/Pasadena Opera at Boston Court, 2020; “Taller”
ATLAS by Meredith Monk with LA Phil at Walt Disney Concert Hall, 2019; “Hungry Ghost”/Improviser
Katabasis, a collaboration with Four Larks at Getty Villa, 2019; “Tantalus”
Ever Present with poet Mandy Kahn at Getty Center, 2019; Vocalist
Yoko Ono Tribute with Girlschool at Walt Disney Concert Hall, 2019; Vocalist
Belarion: A Space Opera, Collaboration with Micaela Tobin and Open Gate Theatre, 2019; Composer
Charm at Rec Center, 2019; Composer/Performer
Brainchild 5 by Carmina Escobar and Kathleen Johnson at South Willard Gallery, 2019; Performer
Gifts of the Spirit by Ron Athey and Sean Griffin with Broad Museum at Vibiana, 2018; Improvisor
Sound. by Laura Steenberge for SASSAS at Baldwin Hills Scenic Overlook, 2018; Performer
Song to Be Performed in a Tunnel in Your Town by Heather Lockie at Mueller Tunnel, 2018; Performer
Tam Activated by Sean Griffin at Torrance Art Museum, 2018; Performer
Instruments of Accountability at Pitzer Gallery, 2018; Composer/Performer
Breathe in the World by Jeanine Oleson at Hammer Museum, 2017; Performer/Improviser
Amadeus Live with LA Opera at Valley Performing Arts Center, 2017; Alto
Mozart Requiem with Pacific American Master Chorale at Walt Disney Hall, 2017; Soloist
Undine; Four Larks at Basic Flowers, 2017; Siren
Hubble Cantata West Coast Premiere by Paula Prestini with LA Opera at Ford Theatre, 2017; Alto
Previously Invisible To Me by Maria Maea at Club Pro LA, 2017; Performer
Satyam by Vineet Vyas and Bageshree Vaze with Opera Nova Scotia, 2017; Soloist
Unseal Unseam, an opera at Highways Performance Space, 2017; Composer/Producer/Performer
Cosi fan tutte by W.A. Mozart with Pasadena Opera Company, 2017; Performer
Nimbus with Los Angeles Philharmonic, 2016; Soloist
Exo-Endo by Andrea Young at Vancouver New Music Festival, 2016; Vocalist
Tonalism by Miles Cooper Seaton with dublab at Mission 356, 2016; Performer
recordings/film/tv

2025 How to Train Your Dragon Movie Soundtrack, Composed by John Powell, Chorus
2024 Wicked movie soundtrack, Composed by John Powell and Steven Schwartz, Chorus
2024 House of Ninjas on Netflix, Composed by Jonathan Snipes, Vocalist
2024 If You’re So Smart, Why Aren’t You Rich with Wild Up, GRAMMY nominated, Vocalist
2024 Tangled with Patrick Shiroishi on dublab, Performer/Interviewee
2023 Opera Sweet Land creates new stories for the settling of America, NPR’s WBUR, Featured Performer
2022 Unprotected: Digital art show funds reproductive rights on KCRW Greater LA, Feature
2022 Unprotected, sound piece for Elana Mann’s horn at Epoch Gallery, Sound Artist
2022 Avatar: The Way of Water soundtrack composed by James Horner, Chorus
2021 Sweet Land composed by Du Yun and Raven Chacon, Soloist/Improviser
2021 Artbound (Seas. 12, Ep. 3) Sweet Land: The Making of a Myth on KCET, Performer/Interviewee
2022 Polia and Blastema by E. Elias Merhige, Opera Philadelphia Film Fest, Vocalist
2016 Artbound (Seas. 8, Ep. 6) Hopscotch, An Opera For the 21st Century on KCET, Vocalist
2016 Hopscotch, A Mobile Opera for 24 Cars; Ch. 33 composed by Ellen Reid, Vocalist

ensembles

Board/Company member of the Industry opera company
Roster singer at LA Master Chorale
Singer/Conductor/Composer of L.A. Choral Lab
Hex vocal ensemble
Collaborator at four larks

performances

Murmurations at REDCAT; Creator/Composer/Performer; 2025

Diasporic Refractions with LA Phil Insight+GYOPO at Walt Disney Hall; Composer/Performer 2025

Howl at Human Resources LA curated by Ashton Phillips; Performer/Improviser 2025

Control + F with Elana Mann and Caroline Blaike for Art in Odd Places, Composer/Performer 2025

Soft Monuments Collaborative Exhibition with Nick McPhail at Maple St. Construct; 2025

The Plasticene with Synchromy at Debs Audubon Center, Collaborator/Performer 2025

Nothing Here is Entirely Foreign with Chantael Takeuchi at Oracle Egg; Creator/Composer/Performer 2025

Sunset on the LA River with Lauren Bon and Mouth Noise, Living Earth, 2025; Composer/Performer

Distance Duet with LA Phil Insight at LA Central Public Library, 2025; Performer/Improviser

Earth Ears: A Sonic Ritual with Long Beach Opera Angel’s Gate Cultural Center, 2024; Performer

Limbs performance with Daniel Paul Schubert at Go To Trade School, 2024; Performer/Improviser

Distance Duet by Carolyn Pennypacker Riggs, High Desert Test Sites, 2024; Performer/Improviser

“Fiber” performance at MOCA, Los Angeles, 2024; Creator/Composer/Choreographer

“Murmurations” for Democracy Sessions Scorebook, Wild Up and MOCA, 2024, Graphic Score Composer

Stimmung for Wild Up Democracy Sessions at MOCA, 2024; Performer

“Quantum Preludes” with Tania Candiani at Getty Center for Getty PST, 2024, Vocalist

“Distance Duet” composed by Carolyn Pennypacker Riggs at High Desert Test Sites, 2024; Performer

Earth Ears by Pauline Oliveros at Angels Gate Cultural Center with Long Beach Opera, 2024; Improviser

“Limbs” by Sharon Chohi Kim and Daniel Paul Schubert at Go To Trade School, 2024; Creator/Performer

Tangled with Patrick Shiroishi on dublab, 2024; Guest Performer/Interviewee

“Land’s End” Choir Concert for LA Choral Lab at AltaSea, 2024; Conductor/Composer

“Blossom” Choir Concert for LA Choral Lab, 2024; Conductor

“BURN REBLOOM” at Hermitage LA, 2024; Performer

“Posthuman Water Chorus” Premiere at FCCLA, 2024; Composer

Procession with Debra Scacco, Joel Garcia and Fulcrum Arts, 2023; Performer/Composer

As We Gather in collaboration with Elana Mann at UCSD Mandeville Gallery, 2023; Creator/Composer

The Recital with Long Beach Opera, 2023; Live Scorer/Composer/Performer

Hope is a Hammer collaboration with Elana Mann at HRLA, 2023; Creator/Composer/Producer

Apsis with L.A. Choral Lab, 2023; Composer/Conductor

We Might Appear As Forest Fires at Berggruen Institute, 2023; Composer/Performer

Heal Hear Here with LA Freewaves and Fulcrum Arts, 2023; Guest Performer

Ladies, Lair, Lake by Trulee Hall at REDCAT, 2023; Soloist

“Atmospheric River” conceived by Joel Garcia and Debra Scacco with Art in Common, 2023; Improviser

Giustino with Long Beach Opera at Museum of Latin American Art, 2023; “Fortuna”/Improviser

Requiem by Giuseppe Verdi with Los Angeles Master Chorale at Hollywood Bowl, 2023; Alto

Music for 18 Musicians by Steve Reich at Colburn School, 2023; Vocalist

Unstuckness Practice, a sound film in collaboration with Music For Your Inbox, 2022; Creator/Composer

Unprotected, a sound piece for Elana Mann’s horn for Epoch Gallery, 2022; Composer/Performer

LBO: On Display at Long Beach Museum of Art, 2022; Composer/Creator/Performer

The Sea Monster, a sound installation at MOLAA with Long Beach Opera,2022; Sound Artist

Unstuckness Practice at Neighborhood Unitarian Church, 2022; Creator/Composer/Producer

Rise and Fall, a collaborative composition with Theater Dybbuk, 2022; Composer/Producer

Hive Rise by Ash Fure at MOCA with Industry Opera Company, 2021; Performer

“Joy Boy” by Julius Eastman with LA Philharmonic at Ford Theatre, 2021; Soloist

Sweet Land by Du Yun and Raven Chacon with Industry Opera Company, 2020; “Wiindigo”/Improviser

Full Pink Moon by Pauline Oliveros with Opera Povera on Zoom, 2020; Improviser

Axis/Flux Marina Abramovic + MAI Exhibition at Sakip Sabanci Museum, 2020; Digital Performer

Dada Divas by Jacqueline Bobak at REDCAT, 2020; “Baroness Elsa”, Improviser

Proving Up by Missy Mazzoli with LA Opera/Pasadena Opera at Boston Court, 2020; “Taller”

ATLAS by Meredith Monk with LA Phil at Walt Disney Concert Hall, 2019; “Hungry Ghost”/Improviser

Katabasis, a collaboration with Four Larks at Getty Villa, 2019; “Tantalus”

Ever Present with poet Mandy Kahn at Getty Center, 2019; Vocalist

Yoko Ono Tribute with Girlschool at Walt Disney Concert Hall, 2019; Vocalist

Belarion: A Space Opera, Collaboration with Micaela Tobin and Open Gate Theatre, 2019; Composer

Charm at Rec Center, 2019; Composer/Performer

Brainchild 5 by Carmina Escobar and Kathleen Johnson at South Willard Gallery, 2019; Performer

Gifts of the Spirit by Ron Athey and Sean Griffin with Broad Museum at Vibiana, 2018; Improvisor

Sound. by Laura Steenberge for SASSAS at Baldwin Hills Scenic Overlook, 2018; Performer

Song to Be Performed in a Tunnel in Your Town by Heather Lockie at Mueller Tunnel, 2018; Performer

Tam Activated by Sean Griffin at Torrance Art Museum, 2018; Performer

Instruments of Accountability at Pitzer Gallery, 2018; Composer/Performer

Breathe in the World by Jeanine Oleson at Hammer Museum, 2017; Performer/Improviser

Amadeus Live with LA Opera at Valley Performing Arts Center, 2017; Alto

Mozart Requiem with Pacific American Master Chorale at Walt Disney Hall, 2017; Soloist

Undine; Four Larks at Basic Flowers, 2017; Siren

Hubble Cantata West Coast Premiere by Paula Prestini with LA Opera at Ford Theatre, 2017; Alto

Previously Invisible To Me by Maria Maea at Club Pro LA, 2017; Performer

Satyam by Vineet Vyas and Bageshree Vaze with Opera Nova Scotia, 2017; Soloist

Unseal Unseam, an opera at Highways Performance Space, 2017; Composer/Producer/Performer

Cosi fan tutte by W.A. Mozart with Pasadena Opera Company, 2017; Performer

Nimbus with Los Angeles Philharmonic, 2016; Soloist

Exo-Endo by Andrea Young at Vancouver New Music Festival, 2016; Vocalist

Tonalism by Miles Cooper Seaton with dublab at Mission 356, 2016; Performer

recordings/film/tv

2025 How to Train Your Dragon Movie Soundtrack, Composed by John Powell, Chorus

2024 Wicked movie soundtrack, Composed by John Powell and Steven Schwartz, Chorus

2024 House of Ninjas on Netflix, Composed by Jonathan Snipes, Vocalist

2024 If You’re So Smart, Why Aren’t You Rich with Wild Up, GRAMMY nominated, Vocalist

2024 Tangled with Patrick Shiroishi on dublab, Performer/Interviewee