Sunho Kim, Acting Associate Concertmaster

Violinist Sunho Kim joined the Kansas City Symphony Orchestra in the fall of 2008, as a Section Second Violinist, but a month later she won the Assistant Concertmaster position. Before moving to Kansas City, she was a fellow at the New World Symphony (NWS) in Miami from 2005-08. Ms. Kim regularly served as a Concertmaster under Michael Tilson Thomas and frequently performed in the NWS Chamber Music Series. As a soloist, Ms. Kim has performed with the Estonian Symphony, Danish Free Mason, Korean Symphony, Seoul Youth Chamber, Seoul Philharmonic Orchestra, andhas given solo performances in Italy, Germany, Denmark, Great Britain, Czech Republic, South Korea and the United States. As a devoted chamber musician, she has performed at the Yellow Barn Chamber Music Festival, the Smithsonian American History Museum as a founding member of the Tappan String Quartet, and in 2007 she performed at the Shanghai International Music Festival with the chamber music ensemble of NWS. She has won numerous awards including the first prize and best interpretation at the International Heino Eller Competition in Tallinn, Estonia, the first prize at the Royal Danish Academy of Music Competition in Copenhagen, the Bales Violin Competition in Boston, Cho-Sun Daily, Seoul Philharmonic Orchestra Young Artist Audition, and the Seoul Arts High School Chamber Music Competition. She has attended various summer festivals and masterclasses and has studied with violinists such as Gidon Kremer, Donald Weilerstein, Sylvia Rosenberg, Shmuel Ashkenasi, Franco Gulli and Ana Chumachenko. Ms. Kim has earned a masters degree at the New England Conservatory with Masuko Ushioda, Diploma and Konzertexamen at the University of Arts, Berlin, with Mi-Kyung Lee, Artist Diploma at the Royal Danish Academy of Music and at the Oberlin Conservatory of Music with Milan Vitek.

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