"... emotions spilled wondrously over into a performance...led by Jun Kim, a young conductor from Ohio...." - Duluth News Tribune-
Conductor and Violinist Jun Kim has performed extensively in North America, Europe and Asia.
A Prize winner of 2012 Black Sea International Conducting Competition in Romania, Jun Kim has conducted orchestras such as the State Symphony Orchestra of Russia, the St. Petersburg State Symphony Orchestra, the Moscow Symphony Orchestra in Russia, Pitesti philharmonic, Constanta Symphony and Bacau Philharmonic in Romania, Lithuanian State Symphony Orchestra, in Vilnius, Lithuania, Radom Chamber Orchestra in Poland, Elche Symphony Orchestra, in Spain, Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra in Canada, Baltimore Chamber Orchestra, Duluth Symphony Orchestra and Richmond Symphony Orchestra, in USA. He has been selected as a Discovery Series Conductor at the Oregon Bach Festival under Maestro Helmuth Rilling. Kim has participated at the National Arts Center of Canada Conducting program and was personally selected by Maestro Kurt Masur for the Kurt Masur conducting seminar in New York. He has worked with Dumitru Goia at the Opera conducting masterclass with the production of Verdi's La Traviata in Bucharest, Romania. He was a scholarship recipient at the Pierre Monteux School for Conductors and Conductor's retreat at Medomak. He has returned to conduct the Duluth Superior Symphony Orchestra by musicians' invitation for their subscription concert.
Most recently, Jun Kim was selected to work with Cincinnati Symphony and the May festival Chorus, and also Baltimore Symphony Orchestra with Marin Alsop. His guest conducting engagement next season include the Symphony Orchestra of the National Opera and Ballet in Constanta, Romania.
Jun Kim has worked under the Maestros such as Jorma Panula, Kenneth Kiesler, Xian Zhang, Colin Metters, Gustav Meier and Markand Thakar.
Active as a violinist, Jun Kim has played recitals and concerts and he has been invited to give violin masterclasses and performances at the universities in US and Korea and served as juries for many competitions. He has won prizes and awards including the Starling Competition, the CCM Concerto Competition, CIBC Canada National Music Competition, Vancouver Youth Symphony Concerto Competition, Tuesday Musical Competition of Akron and he was a recipient of the Aspen Music Festival Fellowship, British Columbia Cultural Scholarship, Bowdoin Festival fellowship, among others. He has also played in violin masterclasses of Cho-liang Lin, Pamela Frank, Federico Agostini, Sergiu Schwartz.
An avid chamber musician, Mr. Kim has worked with the members of the Juilliard Quartet, Cleveland Quartet, La Salle Quartet, Tokyo String Quartet, and the Peabody Trio. Jun Kim is a founding member of The Ainos Trio and they performed at the opening concert of inaugural CCM Spoleto Festival in Spoleto, Italy.
He has served as a concertmaster of CCM Philharmonia Orchestra, and invited to be a guest concertmaster of the orchestras, such as CCM Spoleto Festival Orchestra, Springfield Symphony, Lima Symphony, Wonju Yonsei Philharmonic, to name a few. He also played under such conductors as James Depriest, Lawrence Foster, and David Zimman among others.
Native of Korea, Jun Kim was raised in a musical family, his mother is a pianist and sister is a concert organist. He started the piano at age 3 and the violin at age 12, studied with Young Mi Cho. After immigrating to Vancouver, Canada at age 15, he continued his violin study with John Loban, violin professor at UBC and a former student of Efrem Zimbalist. Jun Kim went on to study under tutelage of Victor Danchenko and Ik-Hwan Bae at Peabody Institute of Johns Hopkins University for a bachelor of music degree in violin performance, where he was a recipient of Peabody merit scholarship. He received a master of music degree from prestigious Indiana University studying with renowned violinist and pedagogue Miriam Fried, and an artist diploma from the University of Cincinnati's College-Conservatory of Music, and currently he is a doctoral candidate in Violin Performance and Orchestra Conducting as cognate. While studying at CCM under Dr. Won-Bin Yim, he was appointed as a Violin teaching assistant from 2001-2006 at CCM and at the Aspen Music Festival. He was also on the violin faculty in CCM's preparatory department.
From 2006 -2012, Jun Kim has served as an assistant professor of violin and director of the University Orchestra at Cedarville University and he was the music director of the Springfield Youth symphony Orchestra, in Ohio, USA.
Jun Kim is has been appointed as the director of orchestral activities and the music director of UWM Symphony Orchestra at University of Wisconsin -Milwaukee since 2012.
