EUNTAEK KIM

Euntaek Kim (also known by his stage name Eliot Goldmund) is a Steinway Teacher and Active Member of Music Educators Association of New Jersey.

With 18 years of experience in teaching to date, Euntaek has been a faculty member at New York Music School in Tenafly, NJ since 2015 and maintains a private studio based in Chatham, NJ. From 2015 until 2024, he also taught at the Lindeblad School of Music in Pine Brook, NJ, where he was appointed the Co-Chair of the Piano Department in 2023, a position he served until his departure in 2024.

Some of Euntaek’s former students have been awarded prizes in auditions and competitions around the country and have been admitted to pre-colleges in New York City.

Euntaek holds undergraduate and graduate degrees in Piano Performance from The Juilliard School, and Artist Diploma from Yale University. His instructors and coaches include Jerome Lowenthal, Boris Berman, Yin Chengzong, Samuel Adler, Audrey Axinn, Ronald Copes, John Corigliano, Mario Davidovsky, Ilya Itin, Joseph Kalichstein, Joel Krosnick, Yoheved Kaplinsky, Seymour Lipkin, Robert McDonald, Charles Neidich, Matti Raekallio, and Mark Steinberg.

As a teacher, Euntaek believes that anyone willing to endeavor in music, regardless of the commitment level, is able to connect deeply within oneself through music-making. For the student in the beginner’s level, Euntaek focuses on nurturing a thorough understanding of the elementary aspects of piano playing, such as music notation, basic music theory, and proper form of the body mechanics. For the intermediate and advanced levels, Euntaek seeks to expose the student to a broad realm of repertoire, while honing on the technical refinement and the auditory sensitivity, in the hopes that the student will have developed the ability and individuality necessary to carve one’s own musical path.