Cellist Clara Minhye Kim has performed as a soloist, recitalist, and chamber musician throughout Canada, England, France, Japan, Korea, Switzerland, Thailand, and the United States. She has been a guest performer and faculty at the Jerusalem Music Center in Israel, Norfolk Chamber Music Festival in U.S., Seoul Music Festival, Busan Music Festival, Great Mountains Music Festival in Korea, Beauvais Music Festival and Festival Music Alp in France etc.

Dr. Kim has been a Juror of the International Schadt String Competition, Young Performer's Music Competition, and the New York Music Competition where she is on board of the competition committee. She has recorded for CRI, SNK Korea, and Albany Records and and has collaborated with Claude Frank, DongSuk Kang, Stephen Picard, Mihaela Martin, Romano Pallotini, among others. Her book on cello method has been published under The Korea Economic Daily & Business Publications Inc. 

As a recipient of numerous scholarships and fellowship grants from The Juilliard School, New England Conservatory, Columbia and Yale Universities, her principal teachers included Channing Robbins, Aldo Parisot, and Laurence Lesser. She has also served as a consultant at the Special Music School of America in New York City for five years and gives masterclasses throughout Korea and the United States. In 2011 she was chosen by U.S. Department of State as one of the Korean-American representatives in Arts for President Lee Myung-Bak and Secretary of State Hilary Clinton's luncheons.

Dr. Kim's students have won numerous national and international awards such as From the Top Jack Cooke Awards, winners of the International Young Tchaikovsky Competition, International Andre Navarra Competition, Irving Klein International Competition, Johansen International Competition, to name a few. Dr. Kim teaches at the Juilliard School Pre-College Division since 2003, in addition to Columbia University.