Kimia is a third-year PhD student in musicology. Her research centers on nineteenth-century women composers and pianists such as Cécile Chaminade and Fannie Bloomfield-Zeisler. Prior to graduate studies at Washington University in St. Louis, Kimia earned her master’s in piano performance at the University of Tehran.

Publications 
Fakharinia, Kimia. “From Silence to Sound: Iranian Women Musicking under Suppression and after Migration.” Rising Voices in Ethnomusicology 21, no. 2 (2025).

Translation
Elijah Wald, "The Blues: A Very Short Introduction" (Persian translation by Kimia Fakharinia, HamAvaz Publication, 2023)

Presentations
“‘Too Virile’: Progressive Compositional Ambition and Unconstrained Virtuosity in Cécile Chaminade’s Concertstück.” The American Musicological Society, Fall 2026.
“From Silence to Sound: Iranian Women Musicking under Suppression and after Migration.” The American Musicological Society, Minneapolis, MN, Fall 2025.
"Music in the Renaissance Period: A Case Study of Two Sacred Works by Palestrina and Josquin des Prez" (2020)