Stephen Kim
Kronberg Academy Professional Studies with Antje Weithaas, funded by the Svea and Sven Damberger patronage
Mit Musik - Miteinander, guest
Kronberg Festival, workshop and concert
Mit Musik - Miteinander, tutor
Chamber Music Connects the World, participant
Kronberg Festival, concert
American violinist Stephen Kim, born 1995, gained his Bachelor of Music degree at the Curtis Institute of Music, where he studied with Shmuel Ashkenasi, Joseph Silverstein and Aaron Rosand. There, he received the Joan and Irwin Jacobs Fellowship and was awarded the Curtis/Milka Violin Artist Prize in 2018. He gained his master’s degree at the Juilliard School under Hyo Kang.
Most recently, Stephen Kim won 3rd prize in the 2019 Queen Elisabeth Competition, 3rd prize in the 2018 Premio Paganini International Violin Competition and 2nd prize at the 2016 Sendai International Music Competition. Yet even in earlier years Kim was already winning many awards, such as in the 2015 Seoul International Violin Competition and the 2014 Menuhin Competition. He was also the first violinist in the history of the Aspen Festival to win all three of the event’s violin competitions in 2011, 2013 & 2014.
As a soloist, Stephen Kim has performed in North America, Europe and Asia with internationally acclaimed orchestras, including the Orchestre Philharmonique Royal de Liège, Brussels Philharmonic, the Royal Chamber Orchestra of Wallonia, the Orchestra del Teatro Carlo Felice, the Curtis Chamber Orchestra and the Juilliard Orchestra. Concert tours have taken him to Korea, Japan, Shanghai, Hong Kong, Macau and Belgium. He has given recitals at the Verbier Festival Academy, in the recital series of the Stradivari Society, at Kingston Chamber Music Festival, and at Carnegie Hall (New York). In addition, he gave a charity performance in Seoul for young disabled musicians and also gave masterclasses there as a way of passing on his passion for music.
As a chamber musician, Kim has worked with Jörg Widmann, Edgar Meyer, Gary Hoffman and Roberto Díaz. He has been a guest leader of the Curtis Symphony Orchestra and performs frequently with the Sejong Soloists in this role.
Stephen Kim plays an “ex-Moller” Guarneri del Gesù dating from 1725, which is generously loaned to him by the Samsung Foundation of Culture and the Stradivari Society of Chicago.
From 2021 to 2024 Stephen Kim studied at Kronberg Academy with Antje Weithaas. His studies were funded by the Svea and Sven Damberger patronage. In the academic year 2023/24, he was additionally supported by the Marcus Dieter Neubronner award.