Violinist Min-Young Kim is a founding member and first violinist of
the internationally acclaimed Daedalus Quartet, winner of the Banff
String Quartet Competition. With the quartet, she performs regularly
throughout the United States, Canada, Europe and Asia, and has been
presented by many of the world’s leading musical venues including
Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, the Library of Congress, the Musikverein
in Vienna, the Mozarteum in Salzburg, and the Concertgebeouw in Amsterdam.
She has also toured extensively with Musicians from Marlboro, the
Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, and has also collaborated in festivals and
performances with members of the Juilliard, Guarneri, Cleveland, Takács
and Vermeer Quartets.
An advocate for music of our time, Min-Young enjoys working closely with
composers and has premiered and performed many new works. In early
music, she has performed and recorded on the baroque violin with
Apollo’s Fire, the Cleveland Baroque Orchestra and New York Collegium.
A graduate of Harvard University and the Juilliard School, Ms. Kim
teaches violin and chamber music at the University of Pennsylvania,
and was formerly on the faculty of Columbia University and the School
for Strings in New York. Her major teachers include Donald Weilerstein,
Robert Mann and Shirley Givens. Min-Young has performed at the SLLMF
since 2016.
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