Sunhee Kim-Nußbeck is a South Korean pianist currently based in Cologne. She started learning the piano in Seoul and graduated at Yewon School of Arts before she moved to Germany at the age of sixteen to start her studies at the Hochschule für Musik und Tanz Köln.
She graduated her Konzertexamen with distinction both as a soloist and a chamber musician. She counts Professor Helmut Weinrebe, Professor Alexander Lonquich, Professor Harald Schoneweg and the Alban Berg Quartet as her influential teachers and mentors. Her most outstanding prizes include the first prize at the International Piano Competition Ettlingen and the second prize at the Brahms International Piano Competition Pörtschach.
As a chamber musician, she gave concerts in the Robert-Schumann-Hall Düsseldorf, Philharmonie Köln, Rudolf-Oetker-Hall, Kuhmo Art Hall, Youngsan Art Hall and Seoul Arts Center, concert activities led her all around the globe. Kim-Nußbeck was invited to prestigious Music Festivals in Bayreuth, Montepulciano and Ochsenhausen, furthermore she was invited as a pianist at the German Music Competition on several occasions.
From 2000 to 2008 she taught at the Robert Schumann Hochschule Düsseldorf before she became a repétiteur and teacher at Hochschule für Musik und Tanz Köln. In 2022 she co-founded the Trio Florestan.
