Bomsori Kim ㅣ Violin
The second prize winner and nine special prizes including Board of Critics Prize of the 2016 International Henryk Wieniawski Violin Competition, Bomsori Kim's most recent accolades include prizes at the 2016 Montreal International Music Competition(second prize and People's Choice Award by Radio-Canada), 15th Tchaikovsky International Competition (fifth prize) and the Queen Elisabeth Competition (laureate).
Kim made her international debut at the Fourth Sendai International Music Competition in 2010, where she became the youngest prizewinner and also received the audience prize. In that same year, she was the laureate in the 10th International Jean Sibelius Violin Competition. She won the first prize in the 3rd China International Violin Competition 2011 in Qingdao, as well as three special prizes. In 2012, she won fifth prize in the Eighth Joseph Joachim International Violin Competition Hannover. In 2013, she won the top prize as well as two special prizes in the prestigious 62nd ARD International Music Competition in Munich.
Kim has performed as a soloist in such illustrious venues as the Musikverein Golden Hall in Vienna, Tchaikovsky Hall in Moscow, Philharmonic Hall in St. Petersburg, Slovak Radio Concert Hall in Bratislava, Finlandia Hall in Helsinki, the Herkulessaal and the Prinzregententheater in Munich, the Berlin Philharmonic Chamber Hall, and the Seoul Arts Center Concert Hall. She has worked with many conductors, including Andrey Boreyko, Marin Alsop, Hannu Lintu, Xincao Li, Sakari Oramo, John Storgards, Yuri Simonov, Valentin Uryupin, Pascal Verrot, Heonjeong Lim, Nanse Gum, Giancarlo Guerrero, Ja-Kyung Year, and Christopher James Lee.
She has appeared with numerous leading orchestras around the world, including the Bayerischer Rundfunk Symphony Orchestra, the Moscow Symphony Orchestra, the National Orchestra of Belgium, the NDR Radiophilharmonie of Hannover, the Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra, the Royal Chamber Orchestra of Wallonia, the Munich Chamber Orchestra, the Munich Radio Orchestra, the Sendai Philharmonic Orchestra, the Kobe City Chamber Orchestra, the Qingdao Symphony Orchestra, the Xiaman Philharmonic Orchestra, the Beijing Broadcasting Symphony Orchestra, the KBS Symphony Orchestra, the Buchon Philharmonic Orchestra, the Busan Philharmonic Orchestra, and the Incheon Philharmonic Orchestra, Montreal Symphony Orchestra, among others.
The 2016/17 season highlight contains work with numerous renowned orchestras including Poznan Philharmonic Orchestra, Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra, Lublin Philharmonic Orchestra, Saint Petersburg Academic Symphony Orchestra and many others. Further appearances include the number of solo recitals in Korea, Europe and United States.
Bomsori Kim graduated from Seoul National University, where she studied with Young Uck Kim. She is currently pursuing her Artist Diploma as a student of Sylvia Rosenberg and Ronald Copes at The Juilliard School which is being supported by an Irene Diamond Graduate Fellowship and a Jeanne M.Bennett Violin Scholarship. With the support of Kumho Rare Instrument Collection, she currently performs on a violin made in Turin by Joannes Baptista Guadagnini in 1774.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Sonata for Violin and Piano No.24 in F Major, K.376 (K.374d)
Allegro
Andante
Rondo. Allegretto grazioso
Robert Schumann Sonata for Violin and Piano No.1 in a minor, Op.105
Mit leidenschaftlichem Ausdruck
Allegretto
Lebhaft
INTERMISSION
Karol Szymanowski Sonata for Violin and Piano in d minor, Op.9, M9
Allegro moderato
Andantino tranquillo e dolce - Scherzando (più moto) - Tempo 1
Finale. Allegro molto, quasi presto
Claude Debussy Beau soir, L.6
Eugène Ysaÿe Caprice d'après l'etude en forme de Valse de Camille Saint-Saëns for Violin and Piano, Op.52