Violinist Kim Joins SSO For ‘Revolutionary!’

SALISBURY, MD---Violinist Soovin Kim joins the Salisbury Symphony Orchestra (SSO) at Salisbury University for the concert “Revolutionary!” 7:30 p.m. Saturday, October 12, in Holloway Hall Auditorium.

Directed by Dr. Jeffrey Schoyen, the program includes works by composers who were revolutionary in their time. The orchestra will perform Giovanni Gabrieli’s Sonata Pian e Forte and Beethoven’s Violin Concerto in D Major, Opus 61, as well as works by Ethel Smyth and John Cage.

Having built on the early successes of his prize-winning years to emerge as a mature and communicative artist, Kim won first prize at the Niccolò Paganini International Competition and was the recipient of the Borletti-Buitoni Trust Award, an Avery Fisher Career Grant and the Henryk Szeryng Foundation Career Award.

He has performed with the Philadelphia Orchestra, San Francisco Symphony, Stuttgart Radio Symphony, Salzburg Mozarteum Orchestra, the Seoul Philharmonic and Accademia di Santa Cecilia Orchestra with Maestro Chung, among others.

In recent seasons he has been acclaimed for his “superb … impassioned” performance of Alban Berg’s Chamber Concerto at the Bard Festival with the American Symphony Orchestra by the Berkshire Review and a “sassy, throaty” rendition of Kurt Weill’s concerto with the Curtis Chamber Orchestra by the Philadelphia Inquirer.

Admission is $25, $20 for seniors age 60 and older, $10 for SU faculty and staff, and $5 for students. Advance tickets are available online and at the Guerrieri Student Union Information Desk.

For more information call 410-543-8366 or visit the SSO website.