Kim won second prize and the special prize for the best interpretation of contemporary piano music at the Ferruccio Busoni Competition 2021. That same year, he received the grand prize at the Chicago International Music Competition. After being awarded best performance in the semifinal round of the 2019 International Tchaikovsky Piano Competition, he was invited to return to St. Petersburg to perform in a special winners’ concert, and Yamaha invited him to appear at a Rising Stars Pianists Concert in Tokyo. In April 2022, he performed with the Suwon Philharmonic Orchestra at the Korean Orchestra Festival at the Seoul Arts Center.  

Originally from Korea, Kim moved to the United States to earn his Bachelor’s degree at the Cleveland Institute of Music, where he studied with HaeSun Paik and Sergei Babayan. He continued his studies with Babayan at The Juilliard School, earning a Master’s in 2019. He then returned to the Cleveland Institute of Music, where he finished his Artist Diploma (2021) and Professional Studies (2024). 

Do-Hyun Kim has appeared in concerts at the Verbier Festival, Mariinsky International Piano Festival, Honest Brook Music Festival, Bravo! Vail Music Festival, and New York’s Pianofest, among others. 

In 2023, Mapo Cultural Foundation appointed him as an “M-Artist,” for which he gave four concerts throughout the year. Other notable performances in 2023 included solo recitals at San Diego’s Musica Vivace Piano Series, Kumho Artists Series in Seoul, and the Seoul Arts Center, as well as Rachmaninoff’s Piano Concerto No. 3 with the Bucheon Philharmonic Orchestra. In 2024, he performed solo recitals at the Salle de l’Institut in Orléans, France, and the IBK Chamber Music Hall in Seoul and appeared with the Gangnam Symphony Orchestra, also in Seoul.