Nam Yun Kim (S. Korea)

Nam Yun Kim, the most famed violinist and professor in Korea, has served on the juries of numerous prestigious competitions worldwide like Queen Elisabeth Competition, Tchaikovsky Competition, Tibor Varga Competition, Hannover International Violin Competition, Taipei International Competition, and so forth.
Nam Yun Kim made her grand debut as she has won top prizes in the Tibor Vargas International Competition after studying at Juilliard School of Music with Ivan Galamian and Felix Galimir. As a promising soloist, Kim was invited to perform at many internationally renowned venues such as Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, Kennedy Center and Sydney Opera House and other major concert halls in Europe and Asia. She also performed with major orchestras throughout the world including St. Petersburg Symphony, Royal Philharmonic, Zagreb Radio Symphony and many others worldwide.
Violinist and Professor Nam Yun Kim has been also invited to many famous music schools and festivals such as Jacobs School of Music in Indiana University, Toho Gakuen School of Music, Tibor Varga Academy, Escuela Superior de Música Reina Sofía, etc. For her great Contributed life and career, she received the Prize of Ok-Kwan Medal, The Prize of Korea National Academy of Arts and she became a member of the National Academy of Arts of the Republic of Korea in 2016.
Prof. Nam Yun Kim is currently the music director of “Korean Soloists” and the professor of violin at the Korea National University of Arts and makes her grand effort to build the strong cultural competitiveness.