NEC Flutist Sooyun Kim Invited to Join Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center Two
Sooyun Kim (Susan Wilson photos)
For Immediate Release:
May 27, 2008
NEC flutist Sooyun Kim ’04, ’07 M.M., ’09 G.D., has been invited to join the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center Two for a three-year residency. A student who has trained with Paula Robison and Renée Krimsier, Kim joins fellow students and Conservatory alumni Lily Francis, Susie Park, Beth Guterman, and David Kim in the prestigious ensemble for young performers in the early stages of their careers. CMS2, which works with these musicians to help them communicate the importance of their art form in a variety of settings, offers high-profile Lincoln Center performance opportunities and professional skills development.
Kim, 26, a native of South Korea who grew up in Leonia, N.J., made her debut at age 10 with the Seoul Philharmonic Orchestra. She has gone on to win numerous prizes including Second prize in the New York Flute Competition in 2005 (the second time she placed second in that competition), and second prize in the 2006 Haynes International flute Competition. In 2007, she was soloist with the Boston Pops Orchestra, Keith Lockhart conducting, as part of NEC’s Reunion festivities that year.
While at NEC, she has played in the honors ensemble, Nobis Trio, and as principal flute of the Gardner (Museum) Chamber Orchestra. She has also served as a principal flutist for the New York String Orchestra, and the Jeunesses Musicales World Orchestra in Spain. Her special interest in the visual arts led her to perform in Variations on a Theme, a groundbreaking collaborative project at the Gardner Museum with the acclaimed conceptual artist, Sol Lewitt, and her teacher Paula Robison. In February 2007, she was soloist in the Mozart Flute Concerto in D-Major K. 314 with the New Amsterdam Symphony Orchestra and conductor Jonathan Schiffman.
This summer, Kim will join the directors of the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, David Finckel and Wu Han, in this year's Music @ Menlo as an artist/faculty member in Palo Alto, CA. Among the other musicians performing at that summer festival will be NEC President Emeritus Laurence Lesser and NEC’s Borromeo Quartet.
Sooyun Kim is the recipient of the Eva Bitsberger Scholarship at NEC.
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