BOMSORI KIM

violin

LIU KOTOW

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Biography

"This violinist is ready for anything: with virtuosity, presence, clarity and a warm, rich tone, Bomsori is adept at making each moment her own" -Crescendo Magazine   

 

Bomsori's upcoming 2023/24 season is packed with exciting highlights, including her debut performances at the BBC Proms with the BBC Philharmonic and at the Hollywood Bowl with the Los Angeles Philharmonic. She will also be on tour with the Tonhalle Orchestra Zürich and Paavo Järvi and will make debuts with the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France and Santtu-Matias Rouvali, the Pittsburgh Symphony and James Gaffigan, and the Orquesta y Coro Nacionales de España and Krzysztof Urbanski. Furthermore, Bomsori will make her Concertgebouw debut with the Residentie Orkest, Vienna Konzerthaus debut with Vienna Symphony and Ha-na Chang and return to  the Montreal Symphony Orchestra and the Singapore Symphony. She will also embark on tours with the Vienna Symphony Orchestra in Asia and the Festival Strings Lucerne in Germany, where she will make her debut at the Elbphilharmonie.

Looking back at her 2022/23 season, Bomsori had many highlights as well. She toured with the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra and Lahav Shani, performed with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and Vasily Petrenko, and debuted with the Barcelona Symphony Orchestra and the Gulbenkian Orchestra. Bomsori also returned to perform with the Danish National Symphony under the direction of Fabio Luisi and the San Francisco Symphony in a recital. She made appearances in Germany with the Basel Chamber Orchestra in Stuttgart and Freiburg, as well as with the Bavarian Radio Chamber Orchestra in Munich.

In 2022  Bomsori performed Bruch's Concerto No.1 at the "Concerts in the Parks" in New York and at Bravo! Vail Festival with the New York Philharmonic and Jaap van Zweden.

Bomsori was the Focus Artist of the Rheingau Musik Festival 2021 and in the same year began a 5-year residency at the Gstaad Menuhin Festival as Menuhin's Heritage Artist.

 

 

Bomsori has had the privilege of performing under the direction of multiple conductors, including Fabio Luisi, Jaap van Zweden, Marin Alsop, Lahav Shani, Vasily Petrenko, Pablo Heras-Casado, Hannu Lintu, Sakari Oramo, Anja Bilhmaier, Giancarlo Guerrero with numerous leading orchestras, such as New York Philharmonic, Danish National Orchestra, Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Moscow Symphony Orchestra, Montreal Symphony Orchestra, Belgian National Orchestra, Warsaw National Philharmonic Orchestra, NDR Radiophilharmonie Hannover, Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra, Camerata Salzburg, Munich Chamber Orchestra, Basel Chamber Orchestra amongst others.

Bomsori has appeared at numerous venues worldwide, such as Musikverein Golden Hall in Vienna, Tchaikovsky Hall in Moscow, the Herkulessaal and the Prinzregententheater in Munich, Berlin Philharmonic, Rudolfinum and Smetana Hall in Prague, Carnegie Hall and Lincoln Center in New York.

In addition to winning the 62nd ARD International Music Competition, Bomsori is a prize winner of the Tchaikovsky International Competition, Queen Elisabeth Competition, International Jean Sibelius Violin Competition, Joseph Joachim International Violin Competition Hannover, Montreal International Musical Competition, Sendai International Music Competition and the 15th International Henryk Wieniawski Violin Competition. Bomsori received the 2018 Young Artist Award from the Korean Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism, and the Korean Music Association’s 2019 Young Artist Award. In 2020, she was presented with the 4th G.rium Artists Award by the Foundation Academia Platonica.

In June 2021 Bomsori released her first Deutsche Grammophon solo Album, Violin on Stage, with NFM Wroclaw Philharmonic and Giancarlo Guerrero.The duo album with pianist Rafał Blechacz, featuring works by Fauré, Debussy, Szymanowski and Chopin, was released in February 2019 by Deutsche Grammophon. The album won the Fryderyk Music Award for “Best Polish Album Abroad” for their DG recording of French and Polish repertoire.

Born in South Korea, Bomsori received a Bachelor degree at Seoul National University, where she studied with Young Uck Kim. She also earned her Master of Music Degree and Artist Diploma at The Juilliard School where she studied with Sylvia Rosenberg and Ronald Copes.

 

She performs on the Guarnerius del Gesù violin “ex-Moller,” Cremona, 1725, on extended loan through the generous efforts of The Samsung Foundation of Culture of Korea and The Stradivari Society of Chicago, Illinois.


News

   Bomsori has been named the ambassador for composer Grażyna Bacewicz by Polish Music Publishing House (PWM Edition). 

 

The new documentary film Bacewicz – Bomsori, directed by the acclaimed Polish filmmaker and Emmy Award winner Jakub Piątek, explores the life and legacy of Grażyna Bacewicz through the artistry of violinist Bomsori. The film captures Bomsori’s personal connection to Bacewicz’s music and highlights her role as an ambassador of the composer’s works, bringing them to audiences worldwide.


Contact

 

 Gregor Kotow - General Manager

T: +49 (0) 511 47416545

Gregor@liukotow.com

 

Shannen Liu-Kotow - Artist Manager

T: +49 (0) 51147416546

Shannen@liukotow.com

 

 


Media

Camille Saint-Saëns' Rondo Capriccioso live at the foot of the Eiffel Tower for Le Concert de Paris 2025.

Orchestra: Orchestre National de France Conductor: Cristian Măcelaru

 

Bomsori plays Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto with Fabio Luisi and KBS Symphony Orchestra, December, 2019 

Bomsori Kim plays Wieniawski concerto

Bomsori Kim, violin

15th International Henryk WieniawskiViolin Competition

Poznań, October, 2017

Bomsori Kim plays Shostakovich Violin Concerto 

Bomsori Kim, violin

Concours musical international de Montréal

Montreal, May, 2016

Bomsori Kim plays Mendelssohn Violin Concerto 

Bomsori Kim, violin

KBS Symphony Orchestra, Julian Kovachev 

Seoul, May 2020

 


Discography:

Bruch & Korngold 

Bamberger Symphoniker 

Jakun Hruša

Carl Nielsen - Violin Concerto

Danish National Symphony Orchestra 

Fabio Luisi

VIOLIN ON STAGE 

 

Wieniawski · Tchaikovsky · Waxman

Gluck · Massenet · Saint-Saëns

Bomsori

NFM Wrocław Philharmonic

Giancarlo Guerrero

June 18, 2021


Bomsori & Rafał Blechacz

Rafał Blechacz and Bomsori Kim present their first recording for Deutsche Grammophon as new duo partners with works by Fauré, Debussy, Chopin and Szymanowski


Bomsori Kim 

Debut album for Warner Classics, Oct. 2017

Wieniawski and Shostakovich Violin concertos with Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra

and Jacek Kaspszyk

 

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BOMSORI & Rafał Blechacz