Background
Kim was born in Iowa City, Iowa on April 10, 1976 to South Korean parents who had met and married in of Korea, then moved to the United States. together. Two years later his brother Marvin was born. Though no member of Kim"s family was involved in music (his mother is a registered dietician, while his father is a communications professor), as a young boy he enjoyed listening to classical violin recordings at home with his mother.
Education
He attended public schools while studying the violin privately, traveling to Montreal weekly to work with the concertmaster of the Montreal Symphony, Richard Roberts.
Career
When Kim was 2, his family moved to Chicago. In 1985, his family moved to Plattsburgh, New New York At ages 13 and 14 Kim himself served as concertmaster of the World Youth Orchestra at Michigan"s National Music Camp at Interlochen.
Both summers Itzhak Perlman was soloist with the Orchestra.
At 15, Kim attended the Cleveland Institute of Music, where he studied with Donald Weilerstein and David Cerone. Kim spent his summers at Cerone"s Encore School for Strings in Hudson, Ohio, a pre-eminent American summer school for serious string players.
In 1995, Kim transferred from the Cleveland Institute to the Curtis Institute of Music that year. There he studied with Jaime Laredo and Victor Danchenko.
Founded decades ago by Rudolf Serkin and Adolf Busch, Marlboro is intended to be a true retreat for the artists who are invited to participate.
Kim frequently returns to the Marlboro Festival. When not touring, Kim teaches at State University of New York Stony Brook.
Membership
He frequently appears in of Korea, both as soloist and as a member of the piano quartet MIK, which performs both standard repertoire and newly commissioned works.