HfMT alumna wins audition at the Deutsche Oper Berlin

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Onyou Kim completed her master's degree in violin at the HfMT Hamburg in 2018 in the class of Prof. Tanja Becker-Bender and passed her concert exam there in 2021.

Onyou Kim Onyou Kim will move from the Dortmund Philharmonic, where she has been Deputy Principal 2nd Violin since fall 2020, to Berlin at the beginning of the 2022/23 season.

Vita

Onyou Kim was born in Seoul, South Korea, 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 chamber music with her string quartet, the BAUM Quartet, in the master's program with Prof. Niklas Schmidt. and at the Reina Sofia School in Madrid with Prof. Günter Pichler.

She has received the following prizes at numerous competitions as a soloist and with the "Luigi Zanuccoli" violin competition, 1st prize at the Felix Mendelssoh Bartholdy University Competition, 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". She has performed as a soloist with the Hamburg Symphony Orchestra and the Seoul Symphony Orchestra and has given recitals in many halls in Korea as well as in Jordan Hall in Boston and Laeiszhalle Grosser Saal. 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.