Kimberly Hasara

A native of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Kim has over 10 years of experience in the industry. Starting as a sophomore in high school, Kim caught the singing bug and continued through her undergrad and grad studies, where she received a bachelor’s from Westminster College and master’s degree from Duquesne University in vocal performance. She studied under the instruction of Dr. Anne Hagan Bentz, Patricia Donahue Burns, Grammy award winner Kim Nazarian, from the New York Voices,  and the late Maureen Budway. She began her classical and jazz piano study in her undergraduate career, studying with Kathryn Miller, Jeff Wachter and continued at Duquesne University with Ron Bickel.

 

Kim has competed in regional and national competitions through the National Association of Teachers of Singing (NATS), where she won first place two consecutive years at the regional level for classical vocal performance in 2008 and 2009, and performed as a semi-finalist at the national level in Los Angeles in the summer of 2010. Kim was a part of a six piece jazz band, known as Chico’s Quintet + 1 for over 3 years, performing all over the city and took their act to New Orleans in April of 2013. Here, she started her journey with her songwriting with her band members. As a private voice and piano instructor, she worked at the well-known music school Musik Innovations for 5 years with over 20 students and continues teaching in the city. She specializes in classical, jazz, and musical theater.

 

While Kim lived in Chicago for 8 years, she explored the music scene. She studied with jazz pianist, Jeremy Kahn, drummer Vincent Davis, and performed locally in the jazz, classical, and musical theater scene.

 

In the summer of 2019, she received another master’s degree from Northwestern University in sound arts & industries. During her time at Northwestern, she developed as an audio engineer and sound designer, completing an array of music projects and sound design for animated short films. That experience led her to intern for CW Media with 4 time Grammy winning audio engineer, Chris Willis, and the largest, legendary recording company in the midwest, Chicago Recording Company, that housed artists such as Michael Jackson, Lady Gaga, Coldplay, Chance the Rapper, to name a few.