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Kyung-Jun Kim


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''...a harmoniously courteous performance of Chausson Poeme Op.25...''
-the Strad Korea

Violinist Kyung Jun Kim (biography)

Korean-born American and European trained violinist Kyung-Jun Kim by his early thirties garnered one of the most victorious musical accomplishments in the world along with just few other violinists from the same generation. Mr. Kim won twelve highlighting international titles as well as twelve national titles.

Mr. Kim's first ever international music competition victory was becoming the semi-finalist at the International Tchaikovsky Competition for Young Musicians. The next, he won the second-prize at the Malta International Music Competition, winning the prestigious Salon de Virtuosi Award, and winning
the diligent Jack Kent Cooke Young Artist Award.

The top-prize winner at the twelve Korean national music competitions, he was the contestant at the Seoul International Music Competition in 2009, and he was the quarter-quarter finalist in the event. Such unsuccessful result at the Korean competition led to the most successful result of Complete Bach Solo Sonatas Recital at the Uijeongbu Arts Center, South Korea in 2015, which was recorded live.

The following year in 2010, the violinist was the quarter-finalist when first-prize not awarded at the Rodolfo Lipizer International Violin Competition. The year after, Kyung Jun won the third-prize at the Yokohama International Music Competition chaired by Gerard Poulet, the first-prize at the Korea International Music Competition, the finalist at the International Conductors' Institute Mastering the Concerto, the semi-finalist at the Unsigned Only Music Competition with the performance of Wieniawski Variations on an Original Theme, and he won the second-prize at the Svirel International Music Competition, as well as the sixth-prize at the Nishinihon Internatinoal Music Competition.

Throughout these international competitions, Mr. Kim performed concertos of Tchaikovsky, Sibelius, Prokofieff No.1, Prokofieff No.2, Stravinsky, Beethoven, Kabalebsky, Prelude of Isang-Yun Li-na Im Garden, Waxman Carmen Fantasy, Wieniawski No.2, Paganini No.2 ''La Campanella'', and Mendelssohn.

As recitalist and live recording artist, Mr. Kim's highlights are the Grand-Prix Recital programmed the Beethoven Sonata No.1 and Brahms Sonata No.1 followed by concert pieces winning the fifth-prize at the Rising Stars Grand-Prix International Music Competition Berlin in 2018, the Eugene Ysaye Solo Sonatas Recital, and the Contemporary Recital programmed Schnitke Sonata No.1 and Milstein Paganiniana.

Mr. Kyung-Jun Kim holds B.A. from Yonsei University in instrumental music and minor in international relations and politics through multiple international academic courses in Singapore and the Europe, M.M. from Mannes School of Music in music performance. He holds Certificate in Performance from Yale School of Music. He is member of the Stradivari Society.

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