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Helen Kim
Assistant Professor of Violin
Helen Kim joined the music faculty of Kennesaw State University in 2005, with a stellar performance background. A native of Canada, she made her orchestral debut with the Calgary Philharmonic at the age of six, and has gone on to become a respected and sought-after artist. She appeared as a soloist with the Boston Pops at Boston’s Symphony Hall, as well as with the Milwaukee and Atlanta Symphony Orchestras. Ms. Kim earned her Master’s Degree from the Juilliard School, where her teachers included Cho-Liang Lin and Dorothy DeLay. While at Juilliard, she was concertmaster of the Juilliard Orchestra, with which she also appeared as a soloist.
She is the recipient of more than one hundred national and international awards. In 1992, she won the prestigious Artists International Competition in New York and, as a result, gave debut recitals at Carnegie Weill Hall and the Aspen Summer Music Festival. Ms. Kim has appeared with many leading orchestras in Canada, the United States, the United Kingdom, Germany and Poland.
A dedicated recitalist and chamber music performer, Ms. Kim has toured extensively throughout Canada and the United States. She has performed with Cho-Liang Lin, Gary Hoffman, Andre Previn, Hilary Hahn, and the Orion String Quartet. A featured performer during the 1988 Olympics Arts Festival, she has given command performances for the Governor General and prime Ministers of Canada.
Ms. Kim has been profiled on national and international television and has appeared on CBC, PBS and CBS networks. Her performances have been aired on NPR and CBC radio networks. Ms. Kim served as assistant and associate concertmaster for the Atlanta Symphony for three seasons. She is currently the assistant concertmaster of the Atlanta Opera Orchestra.
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