As of September 1995

Soovin Kim, violin

Violinist Soovin Kim, from Plattsburgh, NY, is a student of Victor Danchenko at the Curtis Institute of Music. He won the Joseph and Elsie Scharff prize in violin at the Cleveland Institute of Music, where he studied for four years with David Cerone and Donald Weilerstein. In Cleveland, he also collaborated and studied extensively with pianist Anne Epperson. In 1989, at the age of thirteen, he became the youngest concertmaster in the history of Interlochen's World Youth Symphony Orchestra, and maintained that position for an unprecedented sixteen consecutive weeks. He has attended the Meadowmount and ENCORE schools for strings, and has participated twice in the Sarasota Music Festival, studying chamber music intensively with artists such as Joseph Silverstein and William Preucil. Soovin has won prizes in many competitions, most recently taking the grand prize at the Kingsville International Young Performers' Competition and first prize at the Leopold Shopmaker Mid-America Violin Competition. Performances with orchestra have included two sets of concerts with the Cleveland Orchestra on its Educational Concert Series, and concerts with the Vermont Symphony Orchestra, World Youth Symphony Orchestra, Cleveland Institute of Music Symphony, the Midland-Odessa Symphony Orchestra, and the Medical Arts Symphony in Kansas City. He has given recitals in Cleveland and Montreal, and throughout New York state and Vermont, as well as his debut KCS recital at the Kennedy Center in Washington DC last fall. His performances this year included concerts in Mexico as well as engagements with the Corpus Christi and Kansas City Symphonies.

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