Bomsori Kim

Early life and education Bomsori Kim was born in Daegu, South Korea, on December 13, 1989. She first started playing the violin at the age of five. She moved to Seoul to attend .

Kim earned a Bachelor's degree at Seoul National University, studied with , and obtained a Master's degree and Artist Diploma at The Juilliard School under Sylvia Rosenberg and Ronald Copes as a full-scholarship recipient.

Kim has worked with conductors including Jaap van Zweden, Fabio Luisi, Vasily Petrenko, Karina Canellakis, Paavo Järvi, Giancarlo Guerrero, Jacek Kaspszyk, Hannu Lintu, Pietari Inkinen, John Storgårds, Nayden Todorov, Osmo Vänskä, Juraj Valčuha, Andrew Manze, Anu Tali, Andrey Boreyko, Ion Marin, Michał Nesterowicz, Antoni Wit, Christian Arming and Lahav Shani.

Her 2024–2025 engagements also included concerts with orchestras and presenters in Europe, North America and Asia, including appearances connected with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, the NFM Wrocław Philharmonic, the Luxembourg Philharmonic Orchestra, the Prague Symphony Orchestra, the Swedish Chamber Orchestra, the Taipei Symphony Orchestra, the KBS Symphony Orchestra and the Orquesta Sinfónica de Galicia.

Kim has appeared at numerous festivals, such as the Lucerne Festival, Rheingau Musik Festival, Heidelberger Frühling, Gstaad Festival, Dvořák Festival at the Rudolfinum in Prague, the Schleswig-Holstein Musik Festival, the Ravinia Festival, the Verbier Festival, the Marlboro Music Festival and the Moritzburg Festival. and artist-in-residence at Iserlohn Musik Festival in Germany.

Discography In 2017, Warner Classics released Kim's debut album Wieniawski/Shostakovich with maestro Jacek Kaspszyk and the Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra, featuring Wieniawski's Violin Concerto No. 2 and Shostakovich's Violin Concerto No. 1. The BBC Music Magazine praised her playing as with "centred tone and a strong rhythmic thrust", and The Strad magazine wrote "I can't remember when I last enjoyed this concerto so much." In 2018, the album was nominated for the Fryderyk Music Award in the category Album of the Year – Orchestral Music.

In 2019, Deutsche Grammophon released her second album Fauré, Debussy, Szymanowski, Chopin with pianist Rafał Blechacz. Gramophone Magazine described her playing as "direct and ardent, with mahogany-hued lower registers contrasting with sweetly ringing, singing upper ones". In 2020, she won her first Fryderyk Music Award for the Best Polish Album Abroad.

In 2021, Kim released her debut solo album on Deutsche Grammophon, Violin on Stage, with conductor Giancarlo Guerrero and NFM Wroclaw Philharmonic Orchestra.

In 2023, Deutsche Grammophon released a recording of Carl Nielsen's Violin Concerto, Op. 33, with the Danish National Symphony Orchestra conducted by Fabio Luisi, coupled with Nielsen's Symphony No. 4, The Inextinguishable. In 2025, she released Bruch & Korngold with the NFM Wrocław Philharmonic under Giancarlo Guerrero, featuring Max Bruch's Violin Concerto No. 1 and Erich Wolfgang Korngold's Violin Concerto.

Awards and recognitions 2010 – Sendai International Music Competition – Fourth Prize, Audience Prize 2018 – The Album of the Year Orchestral Music (nominated) – Fryderyk Music Award 2019 – Young Artist Award held by Korean Music Association 2020 – G.rium Artist Award held by SK Gas 2020 – The Best Polish Album Abroad – Fryderyk Music Award 2024 – Opus Klassik: Concerto Recording of the Year, Violin, for Nielsen's Violin Concerto with the Danish National Symphony Orchestra conducted by Fabio Luisi