The Rochester (N.Y.) Philharmonic Orchestra has announced the appointment of AHRIM KIM as principal cellist and MAURA McCUNE CORVINGTON as second horn. Their first performances in those roles took place at the RPO’s season-opening concerts on September 17 and 19.
Ahrim Kim, named to the Clara and Edwin Strasenburgh Chair, began cello studies in her native Seoul and moved to the U.S. in 2002 to enroll in the Juilliard School’s Pre-College Division. She earned bachelor’s and master’s degrees from New England Conservatory. Kim’s awards include top prizes in the Houston’s Symphony Ima Hogg Young Artists Competition, the Hudson Valley (N.Y.) Philharmonic String Competition, and Japan’s Gaspar Cassado International Violoncello Competition. She has performed with New York City’s Orpheus Chamber Orchestra and was acting principal cellist in the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra during the 2014-15 season.
Maura McCune Corvington was most recently acting principal horn in the Hawaii Symphony Orchestra and Hawaii Opera Theatre Orchestra. She performed throughout Hawaii as a member of the Honolulu Brass Quintet and was a lecturer in horn at the University of Hawaii at Manoa. Corvington earned a master’s from the Shepherd School of Music at Rice University in Houston and a bachelor’s in horn performance, with a secondary major in piano, from Rochester’s Eastman School of Music.
Ahrim Kim photo courtesy Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra
Posted September 25, 2015
