All you need to know about the acclaimed South Korean violinist Bomsori Kim, including her best recordings to date <\/p>
Since emerging on the world stage in 2016, Bomsori Kim<\/strong><\/a> has consolidated herself as one of the most exciting young violinists around. But what do we know about her? Here\u2019s our guide to the young South Korean fiddler \u2013 and some of her best recordings.<\/p>\n Bomsori Kim is a violinist from South Korea.<\/p>\n Kim first started playing the violin at the age of just five. Soon after, she moved to the South Korean capital Seoul, where she attended Yewon Arts School.<\/p>\n She later took a degree at Seoul National University, and then went to the US to take a Master\u2019s degree and artist diploma at New York\u2019s famous Juilliard School<\/strong><\/a> under Sylvia Rosenberg and Ronald Copes.<\/p>\n Quite a few! Back in 2010, aged just 20, Kim earned a Laureate at the International Jean Sibelius Violin Competition in Helsinki. In 2012, she placed fifth in the International Joseph Joachim Competition in Hanover.<\/p>\n She placed fifth again at the International Tchaikovsky Competition in 2015. And in2016, she took both second and Critic\u2019s Prizes at the International Henryk Wieniawski Competition in Pozn\u00e1n, Poland.<\/p>\n Plenty, including\u00a0the\u00a0New York Philharmonic<\/a><\/strong>, Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, Moscow Symphony Orchestra,\u00a0Warsaw National Philharmonic Orchestra<\/strong><\/a>, and Germany\u2019s NDR Radiophilharmonie<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n Kim\u2019s best recordings to date include:<\/p>\n Wieniawski: Violin Concerto No. 2 \/Shostakovich: Violin Concerto No. 2 (2017)<\/strong> Our review<\/strong><\/a> commented favourably on Kim\u2019s \u2018centred tone and a strong rhythmic thrust\u2019.<\/p>\n Debussy, Faur\u00e9, Szymanowski, Chopin (2019)<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n Violin on Stage: Works by Wieniawski, Tchaikovsky<\/a>, Gluck, Saint-Sa\u00ebns<\/a> (2021)<\/strong> From our review<\/strong><\/a>: \u2018Kim\u00a0brings her childhood singing and dancing experience to Michael Rot\u2019s virtuosic transcriptions of the \u2018Pas de deux\u2019 from\u00a0The Nutcracker<\/i><\/strong><\/a>\u00a0and Gluck\u2019s \u2018Dance of the Blessed Spirits\u2019 (Orfeo ed Euridice<\/i>), gliding across the imaginary stage in a glorious duet with the NFM Wroc\u0142aw Philharmonic.\u2019<\/p>\n All you need to know about the acclaimed South Korean violinist Bomsori Kim, including her best recordings to date <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":29428,"template":"","categories":[1],"acf":{"readingTimeMinutes":"3"},"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/37\/2023\/06\/who-is-bomsori-kim-a-guide-to-the-south-korean-violinist.png",1258,1170,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/37\/2023\/06\/who-is-bomsori-kim-a-guide-to-the-south-korean-violinist-150x150.png",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/37\/2023\/06\/who-is-bomsori-kim-a-guide-to-the-south-korean-violinist-300x279.png",300,279,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/37\/2023\/06\/who-is-bomsori-kim-a-guide-to-the-south-korean-violinist-768x714.png",768,714,true],"large":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/37\/2023\/06\/who-is-bomsori-kim-a-guide-to-the-south-korean-violinist-1024x952.png",800,744,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/37\/2023\/06\/who-is-bomsori-kim-a-guide-to-the-south-korean-violinist.png",1258,1170,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/37\/2023\/06\/who-is-bomsori-kim-a-guide-to-the-south-korean-violinist.png",1258,1170,false]},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"importmanagerhub@sprylab.com","author_link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbcmusicmagazine\/author\/importmanagerhubsprylab-com\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"All you need to know about the acclaimed South Korean violinist Bomsori Kim, including her best recordings to date","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbcmusicmagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rss_feed\/29427"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbcmusicmagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rss_feed"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbcmusicmagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/rss_feed"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbcmusicmagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbcmusicmagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbcmusicmagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbcmusicmagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Who is Bomsori Kim?<\/h2>\n
Bomsori Kim or Kim Bomsori?<\/h3>\n
How old is Bomsori Kim?<\/h2>\n
Where was she born?<\/h3>\n
How did she become a violinist?<\/h3>\n
What violin competitions did Bomsori Kim enter?<\/h3>\n
What orchestras has Bomsori Kim performed with?<\/h3>\n
Bomsori Kim: best recordings<\/h2>\n
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