MIN-YOUNG-KIM
VIOLIN GUEST ARTIST-IN-RESIDENCE
Violinist Min-Young Kim is a passionate collaborator and versatile performer. As a founding member and first violinist of the Daedalus Quartet, she performs regularly throughout the United States, Canada, Europe and Asia, and has been presented by many of the world’s leading musical venues including Lincoln Center, the Library of Congress, the Musikverein in Vienna, and the Concertgebeouw in Amsterdam.
Min is the concertmaster of Chamber Orchestra of Philadelphia and has performed as a guest leader with ECCO (East Coast Chamber Orchestra) and the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra as well as Orchestra 2001 and the Riverdale Sinfonietta. She appears annually at festivals across the United States and as a soloist, she has performed with the Boston Pops in Symphony Hall and with the Bard Festival Orchestra. Min enjoys working closely with composers and has commissioned and premiered many new works including those of Fred Lerdahl, Anna Weesner, Huck Hodge, and Wolfgang Rihm, and can also be heard on historical violin in the baroque orchestras, Tempesta di Mare and Apollo’s Fire.
In her quest to play many strings, Min also plays the violoncello da spalla, (a mini cello held up against the shoulder with a strap), the viola and the electric guitar. Recent and upcoming projects highlight Min’s versatility and virtuosity on multiple string instruments including her ‘Fantasia’ program at Penn’s ‘Music in the Pavilion’. In her collaboration with the radiant vocal ensemble Variant 6, she performed Bach’s Chaconne with hidden chorales, as arranged by Helga Thoene and Gabriel Jackson’s Ave Regina Caelorum on a six string electric violin with multi effects stomp.
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A dedicated teacher, Ms. Kim holds degrees from Harvard, Juilliard and the Cleveland Institute of Music, and currently teaches at the University of Pennsylvania. She taught previously at Princeton University, Columbia University and the School for Strings in New York, and was one of the first recipients of the Morse Fellowship at Juilliard as a teaching artist, integrating engaged listening with classroom curriculum in NYC public schools. Her major teachers include Donald Weilerstein, Robert Mann and Shirley Givens.