Success for HfMT violinist

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Onyou Kim, master's graduate and concert exam candidate in the class of Prof. Tanja Becker-Bender, has won the audition for the position of deputy principal second violin with the Dortmund Philharmonic Orchestra

Onyou Kim has already graduated from the HfMT with her string quartet, the BAUM Quartet, as well as the Master's degree course in chamber music with Prof. Niklas Schmidt. At the beginning of December, she also won 1st prize in the Elise Meyer Competition at the HfMT.

Curriculum vitae
Onyou Kim, born in Seoul, completed her bachelor's degree at Seoul National University and, after a year of study at the New England Conservatory in Boston, came to the Hamburg University of Music and Drama, where she has been studying violin with Prof. Tanja Becker-Bender in the master's and concert exam program since spring 2016.
At the same time, she is studying with her string quartet, the BAUM Quartet, in the master's program in chamber music with Prof. Niklas Schmidt. She also studied at the "Escuela Superior Reina Sofia" in Madrid with Prof. Günter Pichler.
She has won the following prizes at numerous competitions as a soloist and with the quartet: 1st prize in the Elise Meyer Competition at the HfMT Hamburg at the beginning of December 2020, preceded by 1st prize in the "Felix Mendelssohn Competition" at the beginning of 2020. Prize at the "Felix-Mendelssohn-Bartholdy-Hochschulwettbewerb" in Berlin, 2nd Prize at the 5th String Quartet Competition of the Irene Steels-Wilsing Foundation, Audience Prize at the "Melbourne International Chamber Music Competition", 2nd Prize at the "Salieri-Zinetti Competition", 3rd Prize at the International Violin Competition "Luigi Zanuccoli".

She has already performed as a soloist with the Seoul Symphony Orchestra and has given recitals in many halls in Korea as well as in Jordan Hall in Boston and in the Great Hall of the Laeiszhalle in Hamburg. She has performed with the BAUM Quartet at the Frenswegen International Summer Academy and at the Trondheim Festival in Norway, where she also performed with Henning Kraggerud and Peter Jarusek from the Pavel Haas Quartet. She has completed master classes with James Ehnes, Donald Weilerstein, Eberhard Feltz, Oliver Wille, Mi-Kyung Lee, Sergey Kravchenko, Jürgen Kussmaul, Ik-Hwan Bae, Alexander Gebert, Kyung Sun Lee, Hatto Beyerle and Peter Jarusek.