YuEun Kim - Violin
Award-winning South Korean violinist YuEun Gemma Kim concertizes internationally as a soloist and chamber musician in a wide variety of repertoire on modern and baroque period instruments.
She moved to the United States in 2013 to attend University of Southern California, where she studied with Midori Goto. She has been performing in the US, Asia, and Europe with ensembles like Delirium Musicum, American Bach Soloists, Boulder Bach Festival, Voices of Music, Noree Chamber Soloists, Kumho Chamber Music Society and many more. She was a top prize winner at Boulder International Chamber Music Competition Art of Duo, a semi-finalist at the Qingdao International Violin Competition in China and at the Michael Hill International Violin Competition in New Zealand, and recently received the Jeffrey Thomas Award from American Bach Soloists.
YuEun is a core member of the self-conducted chamber orchestra Delirium Musicum. During the pandemic, Delirium Musicum created MusiKaravan, which took YuEun and Artistic Director Etienne Gara on the road in a vintage Volkswagen bus to perform socially-distanced concerts for farm workers, winemakers, random passersby, and even the occasional ostrich. MusiKaravan won the Audience Choice Award of the San Francisco Classical Voice for “Best Streaming Series”. She participated in Delirium Musicum’s recent debut album, “Seasons” under the label Warner Classics. In 2022, YuEun was named Artist-in-Residence at Musica Angelica Baroque Orchestra and this season, she will appear as a soloist with The Chamber Orchestra at St. Matthew’s, Los Angeles Virtuosi Orchestra, American Bach Soloists, Musica Angelica Baroque Orchestra and will perform in Europe and Asia.
Her Chopin’s Nocturne video on her YouTube reached over 17 million views.