DAVID KIM LIVE IN CONCERT
SUNDAY | SEPTEMBER 12, 2010 | 7:15 PM |CMAchurch
TICKETS: free

Violinist David Kim was named Concertmaster of the Philadelphia Orchestra in 1999. Born in Carbondale, Illinois in 1963, he started playing the violin at the age of three, began studies with the famed pedagogue Dorothy DeLay at the age of eight, and later received his Bachelor's and Master's degrees from The Juilliard School. In 1986 he was the only American violinist to win a prize at the International Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow.

Mr. Kim appears as soloist with the Philadelphia Orchestra each season as well as with numerous orchestras around the world. Conductors with whom he has performed include Kazuyoshi Akiyama, Myung Whun Chung, Christoph von Dohnanyi, Charles Dutoit, Christoph Eschenbach, Rafael Frubeck de Burgos, Vladimir Jurowski, Peter Oundjian, and Wolfgang Sawallisch. He also appears internationally at festivals such as MasterWorks (USA) and Pacific (Japan), and is a member of the Kumho Art Hall Chamber Music Society in Seoul, Korea.

His instrument is a J.B. Guadagnini from Milan, Italy ca. 1757 on loan from the Philadelphia Orchestra. Mr. Kim resides in a suburb of Philadelphia with his wife Jane and daughters Natalie and Maggie.

Metamorphosen; The Philadelphia Orchestra, Wolfgang Sawallisch conducting
“’Metamorphosen’ always glows, but here it glowed with intensity, and the concertmaster’s superb, delicate solos were gold on gold.”

-Paul Griffiths, The New York Times, 4/30/1999

Brahms Violin Concerto; Fairfax Symphony Orchestra, William Hudson conducting
“The highlight of the all-Brahms program was a melodious, musicianly interpretation of the Violin Concerto, with Philadelphia Orchestra concertmaster David Kim as soloist. The old canard about this work -- no one is quite sure who said it first -- is that ‘it was written not for the violin but against it.’ Brahms, a pianist, derived virtuoso passages from his musical materials, so technically difficult sections do not always lie well on the violin. But you would never know it from Kim's understated virtuosity. Double-stops were as clear as single notes; single notes resonated equally in first position and eighth. In the first-movement cadenza, Kim was practically playful, though playfulness is a word rarely associated with this concerto.”

-Mark Estren, Washington Post, 1/23/2006