Benny Kim

Benny Kim (born August 14, 1962 in Urbana / Illinois ) is an American violinist of Korean origin.

Kim began his violin training at the age of ten using the Suzuki method with Doris Preucil . He continued her with Almita Vamos and won the Chicago Symphony Youth Symphony Auditions at the age of fifteen with his solo debut with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra . In the following year he was a winner of the St. Louis Symphony Youth Auditions and the Julius Stulberg Auditions . At the Juilliard School he was a student of Dorothy DeLay and earned a bachelor's and master's degree. In 1983 he won the Young Concert Artists International Auditions .

As a concert musician, Kim has performed with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra , the Boston Symphony Orchestra , the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra , the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra and the Detroit Symphony Orchestra , the Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra , the Orquésta Sinfonica Nacional de México , the BBC National Orquesta of Wales and the great orchestras in South Africa. As a chamber musician, he worked with Pinchas Zukerman , Lynn Harrell , Jaime Laredo , Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg (albums Bella Italia and Night and Day at EMI ) and Ida Kavafian . He often performed with his brother, cellist Eric Kim . With Daniel Hope he gave concerts at the Savannah Music Festival and the Trondheim Chamber Music Festival , at Queen Elizabeth Hall in London and at Lincoln Center . He is also first violinist in the Miami String Quartet and has been an associate professor of violin at the University of Missouri – Kansas City Conservatory since 1995

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SURNAME	Kim, Benny
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	American violinist
DATE OF BIRTH	August 14, 1962
PLACE OF BIRTH	Urbana (Illinois)