Kimberly Carballo serves as Coordinating Opera Coach for Indiana University’s Opera and Ballet Theater and faculty in the Chamber Music and Collaborative Piano department. Ms. Carballo is also an active international performer and educator, teaching both at the university and in her private studio. She is a strong believer in and practicer of community engagement locally and globally. She founded and directs Reimagining Opera for Kids (ROK), a music community engagement and education program based in Bloomington, Indiana. She participates annually as faculty advisor for the Indiana University portion of the team in the Cheerful Heart Music Education Mission in the Dominican Republic and Haiti, and co-directs the year-round online teaching program that connects students in the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music and students in the Loma de Cabrera Escuelita de Música. She is a founding member of the Amity Trio, a chamber ensemble that commissions and performs new music as a vehicle for building communication among and reflection on today’s global community, especially as an amplifier for underrepresented voices.  Ms. Carballo also forms part of the inaugural and ongoing team for Tunaweza Kimuziki (Through Music All is Possible), a project promoting exchange among music educators, scholars, and performers in Kenya and the USA.  
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Actualmente Kimberly Carballo es pianista de ópera en la Jacobs School of Music Opera Theater de Indiana University, profesora en el departamento de Música de Cámera y Piano Colaborativo, ejecutante, y educadora con trayectoria internacional.  Ha trabajado como pianista y coach para la Compañía Lírica Nacional de Costa Rica, profesora de teoría y pianista en la Universidad de Costa Rica, el Conservatorio Musical de Alajuela, y la Universidad Nacional.  Además de estas actividades profesionales, en el taller Tunaweza Kimuziki forma parte del equipo inaugural que ha seguido hasta hoy en día; el taller, cuyo nombre significa “A través de la música, todo se puede hacer,” provee oportunidades de interacción e intercambio cultural para músicos y educadores de música, con bases en los EEUU y en Kenya.