Kim is a graduate of the University of Kansas (BME, Bassoon minor) and the University of Missouri - Kansas City (MM in Bassoon). From Fall 2002 to Spring 2013 she taught as adjunct faculty Bassoon instructor at Washburn University in Topeka, Kansas, and is listed since Fall of 2011 as an adjunct faculty Bassoon Instructor in the music department of Mid America Nazarene University in Olathe, Kansas.
Career Accomplishments
Kimberly Krutz has substituted since the Fall of 1988 as Bassoonist and Contrabassoonist with the Kansas City Symphony. She performs regularly with the Kansas City Chamber Orchestra, the newEar Contemporary Music Ensemble, has substituted as contrabassoonist with the St. Louis Symphony, played with the Omaha Symphony in April, 2010, with Orchestra Iowa (Cedar Rapids, IA) in March, 2011 and as co-Principal Bassoonist for the Endless Mountain Music Festival in the Summer of 2011. Previously, she performed with the Kansas City Camerata, the Springfield (IL and MO) Symphonies, and five seasons with the Missouri Symphony Society based in Columbia, Missouri, with one season as Principal Bassoonist. Besides being an occasional featured soloist or orchestral performer with various ensembles in and around the Kansas City area, Kim performed for many years as bassoonist with the Mariah Wind Trio. She has been a performer in chamber music recitals at the Oklahoma Clarinet Symposium, International Double Reed Society Conferences in Tempe, Arizona, Austin, Texas, Provo, Utah, and at the National Flute Association Conferences in San Diego, California and in Kansas City, Missouri. Kim maintains a private teaching studio in her home and has been an adjudicator for the KMEA Regional and All-State Solo and Ensemble Festivals for several years. In July, 2012 she was the Bassoon clinician at the Kansas Bandmasters Association Summer Convention in Wichita, Kansas. Previously, Kim participated in masterclasses with Kenneth Munday, Milan Turkovic, Charles Ullery, Loren Glickman, Mark Popkin and Richard Svoboda, and studied with Howard Halgedahl, Alan Hawkins, and Marita Abner.
