Philadelphia violinist Min-Young Kim is a founding member and first violinist of the Daedalus Quartet with whom she has been presented by many of the world’s leading musical venues including Lincoln Center, the Library of Congress, the Musikverein in Vienna, and the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam. Min is also the concertmaster of the Chamber Orchestra of Philadelphia and a core member of ECCO (East Coast Chamber Orchestra) and is a frequent guest with Orpheus Chamber Orchestra and the New York Philharmonic. She has been featured as a soloist with the Chamber Orchestra of Philadelphia, Apollo’s Fire, the Boston Pops in Symphony Hall and with the Bard Festival Orchestra. She performs on historical violin and viola with Apollo’s Fire and Tempesta di Mare and enjoys working closely with composers, commissioning and premiering new works including those of Fred Lerdahl, Anna Weesner, Huck Hodge, and Wolfgang Rihm.
In her quest to play many strings, Min also plays the viola as well as a five string violoncello da spalla, a six-string electric violin and the guitar. Recent Philadelphia based projects have highlighted Min’s versatility and virtuosity on multiple string instruments including her ‘Fantasia’ program and a collaboration with the radiant vocal ensemble Variant 6 with whom she performed Bach’s Chaconne with hidden chorales as arranged by Helga Thoene and Gabriel Jackson’s Ave Regina Caelorum on a six-string electric violin with multi effects stomp (with videos on YouTube). A graduate of Harvard and Juilliard, Min studied with Shirley Givens, Robert Mann and Donald Weilerstein, and currently teaches at the University of Pennsylvania.
Min has performed at the SLLMF since 2016.
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