About Kim

Dr. Kimberly Soby is a soprano, pianist, and teacher who brings joy to concert halls and classrooms alike, passionately using her broad experience to promote music for new generations of performers and music lovers.

 

She recently completed her Ph.D. in Music Theory and History at the University of Connecticut, along with a Graduate Certificate in Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies. Her research engages feminist theory, interdisciplinary methods, and questions of gendered perception, musical meaning, and aesthetic expectation. Kim has presented at national and international conferences, including the Association for Literary Critics, Scholars, and Writers, the National Opera Association, Feminist Theory & Music, the University of Surrey’s "Actors, Singers, and Celebrity Cultures Across Centuries” conference, and the IAFOR European Conference on Arts and Humanities. Her work is featured on SMT-Pod (Season 2), where she discusses gendered musical settings of Chamisso’s Frauenliebe und -leben. Upcoming projects include an online lecture for the Artsong and Gender in Dialogue series and a lecture recital on the music of Elisabeth Lutyens.

 

Her teaching experience spans a wide range of subjects and institutions. At UConn, she has served as Instructor of Record for courses including Music Fundamentals and Ear Training, the full undergraduate Music Theory sequence, First-Year Writing Studio (English), and Feminism and the Arts (WGSS). She has also led discussion sections for Popular Music and Diversity in American Society. Her teaching at UConn earned her the 2025 Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award from the School of Fine Arts, recognizing her innovative and exceptional pedagogy. Kim has also held teaching positions at Nova Southeastern University and New World School of the Arts in Miami, where she taught across the music and musical theater departments. She joined the faculty of Connecticut College in Fall 2025.

 

Her work as a performer-educator has included teaching artistry with Florida Grand Opera’s Cadenza program and three seasons of touring with Young Patronesses of the Opera’s In School Opera Tour, bringing classical music and opera to schools across South Florida. As a new music specialist, Kim can be heard on recordings released by Naxos, Albany Records, and Centaur Records.

 

Kim earned her Bachelor of Music degree magna cum laude in Vocal Performance from the University of Connecticut and dual Master of Music degrees with Academic Honors in Vocal Performance and Opera Studies from New England Conservatory, where she was the sole recipient of the Opera Studies degree in 2010 and an Opera Fellow with now-defunct Opera Boston, covering and performing a wide range of challenging, non-traditional repertoire.

 

In addition to teaching and research, Kim serves as an editorial associate for the American Jewish Year Book, an annual scholarly publication based at UConn and the University of Miami.

 

Outside of music, she enjoys the beach, cats, and the Oxford comma. She is enthusiastically (and, by her own admission, obnoxiously) devoted to UConn basketball, consistently trashing her sleep cycle every March Madness, and maintains a private voice and piano studio thanks to the wonders of technology.