Soovin Kim
violin
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has appeared as a concerto soloist with the Baltimore and Nashville symphonies, the Cincinnati Chamber Orchestra, the National Philharmonic, the Chamber Orchestra of Philadelphia, and the Seoul Philharmonic. He recently gave chamber music concerts at London's Queen Elizabeth Hall, Amsterdam's Concertgebouw, and Vienna's Konzerthaus. He devotes a part of each year to studying and performing the quartet literature with the Johannes String Quartet. In past seasons he has appeared with the Philadelphia Orchestra, San Francisco Symphony, Indianapolis Symphony, and the Orchestra of St. Luke's. Mr. Kim's first CD with Azica Records, Paganini's 24 Caprices for solo violin, was released in February 2006 and was named Classic FM magazine's Instrumental Disc of the Month. Another Azica CD of Fauré's Sonata in A Major and Chausson's Concerto for violin, piano, and quartet was released in early 2007. He won first prize at the Paganini International Competition as well as receiving the Henryk Szeryng Career Award, an Avery Fisher Career Grant, and a Borletti-Buitoni Trust Award. He studied at the Cleveland Institute of Music and later attended and graduated from the Curtis Institute of Music. Mr. Kim plays on a 1709 Antonio Stradivarius violin, the ex-Kempner.
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