J.S. BACH Complete Sonatas and Partitas for Solo Violin: SOLD OUT

LCCMF founder and Artistic Director Soovin Kim is an exciting violinist who built on the early successes of his prize-winning years to emerge as a mature and communicative artist. He enjoys a broad musical career regularly performing Bach sonatas and Paganini caprices for solo violin, sonatas for violin and piano ranging from Beethoven to Ives, and new world-premiere works almost every season. When he was 20 years old Mr. Kim captured first prize at the Paganini International Violin Competition, and subsequently received the Henryk Szeryng Career Award, an Avery Fisher Career Grant, and a Borletti-Buitoni Trust Award. He performed with the Philadelphia Orchestra and the San Francisco, Dallas, Baltimore, and Indianapolis Symphonies as well as major orchestras in Paris, Rome, Prague, Moscow, and Seoul. Among his many commercial recordings are his “thrillingly triumphant” (Classic FM Magazine) disc of Paganini’s demanding 24 Caprices. He immersed himself in the string quartet literature for 20 years as the 1st violinist of the Johannes Quartet, and now performs in the Chien-Kim-Watkins Trio with pianist Gloria Chien and cellist Paul Watkins.

Soovin Kim is the founder and artistic director of the Lake Champlain Chamber Music Festival (LCCMF) in Burlington, Vermont. The University of Vermont recognized his contributions to the community by bestowing an honorary doctorate upon him in 2015. Mr. Kim devotes much of his time to his passion for teaching at the New England Conservatory and the Yale School of Music.