Hwi-Eun Kim - Violin

Hwi-Eun Kim, born in Daegu, Korea, began studying violin at age 7. At age 13, she entered The Curtis Institute of Music where she studied with Joseph Silverstein and Ida Kavafian, and continued her studies with Donald Weilerstein at The Juilliard School in New York City. She has appeared as a soloist with numerous orchestras in Korea, including the Korean National Festival Orchestra,  Daegu Philharmonic Orchestra, and her recent performance was with Korea Youth Orchestra at Alice Tully Hall in New York City. She also has won the concerto competition at Music Academy of the West and played as a soloist with Music Academy of the West Orchestra at Granada Theater in Santa Barbara. She has given solo recitals worldwide at the venues such as the Sejong Arts Center, Khumho Arts Hall, Daegu Arts Center, Auer Hall, and Field Concert Hall.

As an active chamber musician, she has given performances in numerous places, including Carnegie’s Zankel Hall, Avery Fisher Hall, and Alice Tully Hall. She furthermore has studied chamber music with world renowned-musicians, such as Itzhak Perlman, Pinchas Zukerman, Samuel Rhodes, Paul Katz, and Karen Dreyfus. Her string quartet was chosen as the American representative for the Franco-American Music Festival in Missillac, France.

Currently, she is the assistant conductor of Elizabeth Mandell Music Institute’s Chamber Orchestra at Crossroads School of Arts and Sciences in Santa Monica, LA, after receiving her Doctorate in Musical Arts in violin performance with minors in instrumental conducting, music theory, and jazz at University of Southern California under the guidance of Glenn Dicterow.