Violinist SOOVIN KIM has been named to the strings faculty at New England Conservatory, effective in September 2014. Winner of the Paganini Competition, the Henryk Szeryng Career Award, an Avery Fisher Career Grant, and a Borletti-Buitoni Trust Award, he is a regular soloist with orchestras, first violinist in the Johannes Quartet, and violinist in the Korean piano quartet M.I.K. Kim also serves as artistic director of the Lake Champlain (N.Y.) Chamber Music Festival, artist-in-residence at Stony Brook (N.Y.) University and at Kyung Hee University in Seoul, and on the faculty of Peabody Conservatory in Baltimore. He will leave the Stony Brook and Peabody posts in order to take up his new position with NEC. Born in Iowa City to South Korean parents and raised in Chicago, Kim attended Cleveland Institute of Music and the Curtis Institute of Music, and is former concertmaster of the New World Symphony in Miami Beach.
Posted December 10, 2013
