Chloe Kim

About

Drummer Chloe Kim (Yeajee Kim, 김예지; MMus Performance Research. she/her) is one of Australia's foremost improvising musicians. 

Chloe constantly performs alongside legendary musicians, and her strength as an artist also emanates in the setting of solo drum set performances. Since 2018, Chloe has performed solo at the Sydney Opera House, Powerhouse Museum, Art Gallery of New South Wales, and Museum of Old and New Art. In 2023, she performed 100 hours of solo drumming over 10 consecutive days at the MONA FOMA festival in Tasmania. She also performed a live response to Do Ho Suh's Staircase-III installation at the Museum of Contemporary Art for the Sydney Festival and composed/performed a score in the forthcoming documentary The Independents about the 2022 Australian Federal Election. 

To date, Chloe has released four solo drum albums, which have received media praise in the UK, France, and the United States. She was also a soloist in Jeremy Rose's APRA Art Music Award-winning work Disruption! The Voice of Drums, which featured at the Sydney Festival (2021) and Melbourne International Jazz Festival (2022). 

Having completed a Bachelor’s degree in Jazz Performance followed by a Masters thesis in solo drum set performance, Chloe has been a passionate and beloved lecturer at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music in the Drum Set faculty since 2021. Chloe wishes to describe her drumming by citing one of the lines from her research:

"a propulsive quality in drumming performance characterised by a high level of intensity and precise execution of the musical details afforded by physical agility".

LIVE DREAMS, Liveworks 2022

The Crying Room: Exhumed, Liveworks 2024