EUNICE KIM, violin
Biography
A native of the San Francisco Bay Area, violinist Eunice Kim has been
proclaimed “just superb” by The New York Times and “a born performer” by
Epoch Times. A winner of Astral’s 2012 National Auditions, this season Ms.
Kim debuts as soloist with the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra and the
Bakersfield Symphony. Recently, she appeared at the Caramoor Center
for Music and the Arts as an artist on the Evnin Rising Stars series. She
has also appeared as soloist with The Philadelphia Orchestra, Louisville
Symphony, Seongnam Philharmonic, and Jersey City Philharmonic. Ms.
Kim made her solo debut at the age of seven with the Korean
Broadcasting Symphony Orchestra in Seoul, Korea. Her NAXOS
recording of George Tsontakis’s Unforgettable with the Albany Symphony
Orchestra will be released in 2017.
Eunice Kim performed for the United Nations and Secretary General
Ban Ki-moon in Bohemian National Hall and at the Henry Kissinger
Prize Ceremony at the American Academy in Berlin. She participated in
the inaugural season of the Tippet Rise Arts Center (2016), where she is
now a frequent guest artist. Ms. Kim has been featured as a soloist at
Carnegie’s Zankel Hall as a part of the Curtis Chamber Orchestra’s
Photo: Claire McAdams
residency with Krzysztof Penderecki, performing his Duo Concertante. She
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appeared several times at the Kennedy Center as a performer for the
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Millennium Stage Series, representing the Curtis Institute of Music and
the San Francisco Conservatory of Music. As a guest artist for “Curtis on
Tour,” she has performed in Taiwan, Hong Kong, South Korea, and Germany with violist Roberto Díaz.
An avid chamber musician, Ms. Kim has appeared at Music at Angel Fire, Music@Menlo, Ravinia’s Steans
Institute of Music, and Marlboro Music School and Festival. She has collaborated with such prominent
artists as Miriam Fried, Nobuko Imai, Peter Wiley, Gary Hoffman, Ralph Kirshbaum, Cynthia Raim, and
eighth blackbird. She is the former violinist of Ensemble39, a contemporary mixed string and wind
quintet devoted to commissioning new music and pushing the boundaries of the concert experience.
Ms. Kim has been partnered with The Philadelphia Orchestra’s Department of Education to perform in
outreach series. She has also been a teaching artist for the William Penn Residency at schools in the
Philadelphia area. She has performed and taught at numerous international music festivals, most recently
at the Teatro Del Lago Festival in Chile and the Valdres Music Academy in Norway.
Eunice Kim began studying violin at the age of six with Wei He in the preparatory division of the San
Francisco Conservatory of Music. She graduated with a Bachelor’s degree from the Curtis Institute of
Music under Ida Kavafian, where she was the recipient of the Rose Paul Fellowship. At Curtis, she served as
concertmaster of the Curtis Symphony Orchestra, a mentor in the Curtis Community Engagement
program, and was awarded the prestigious Milka Violin Artist Prize.
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EUNICE KIM, violin
Critical Acclaim
“Eunice Kim is one of those fortunate few that find what they love as
a child, and are good enough to base their life around it...A born
performer!” —The Epoch Times
“Eunice Kim, the solo or lead violinist in everything…was
superb throughout.” —The New York Times
Photo: Claire McAdams
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