About
Bomsori Kim, a popular favorite of the 15th Henryk Wieniawski International Violin Competition in Poznań in 2016, won second place, the critics' award, and nine special awards. Previously, in 2010, she was the youngest winner of the 4th Sendai International Music Competition, and in 2013, she won the 62nd ARD Competition. Her other accolades include second place and the "People's Choice" award from the Montreal International Musical Competition in 2016. As a soloist, she has performed in prestigious concert halls such as Carnegie Hall in New York, the Konzerthaus and Musikverein in Vienna, the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, the Elbphilharmonie in Hamburg, the Czajkowski Hall in Moscow, the Saint Petersburg Philharmonic, the Radio Slovakia Hall in Bratislava, the Finlandia Hall in Helsinki, the Herkulessaal and Prinzregententheater in Munich, the Berlin Philharmonic, the Bedřich Smetana Hall in Prague, and the Arts Center Concert Hall in Seoul. She has performed with orchestras such as the Bayerische Rundfunk Symphony Orchestra, the Tonhalle Orchestra Zürich, the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, the Orquesta y Coro Nacionales de España, the Orquesta y Coro Nacionales de Catalunya, the Pittsburgh Symphony, the Montreal Symphony Orchestra, the National Orchestra of Belgium, the National Philharmonic Orchestra of Warsaw, the NDR Radiophilharmonie, the Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra, the Royal Chamber Orchestra of Walloon, the Munich Chamber Orchestra, the Munich Rundfunk Orchestra, the Sendai Philharmonic Orchestra, the Kobe City Chamber Orchestra, the Beijing Broadcasting Symphony Orchestra, the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra, the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, the Gulbenkian Orchestra, the Basel Chamber Orchestra. In 2017, her debut album, featuring the D-minor Violin Concerto, Op. 22 by Henryk Wieniawski, and the A-minor Violin Concerto, Op. 77 by Dmitri Shostakovich, was released by Warner Classics, with the Warsaw National Philharmonic Orchestra under the direction of Jacek Kasperski. In 2021, she signed an exclusive contract with Deutsche Grammophon, for which she has been recording since then. In June 2018, she began a joint tour with Rafał Blechacz in the Poznań Philharmonic, performing Mozart, Fauré, Debussy, and Szymanowski sonatas for violin and piano. Shortly after their concert in Poznań, the two artists recorded the works (including Chopin's Nocturne No. 20) for Deutsche Grammophon, which was released in February 2019. In 2022, this South Korean violinist was a soloist at the legendary "Concerts in the Parks" in New York, performing with the New York Philharmonic under the baton of Jaap van Zweden, and made her debut at the BBC Proms festival in 2023. Rafał Blechacz, after winning the 15th International Chopin Competition in Warsaw in 2005, gained a position as a truly world-class artist. His exceptional talent was recognized by audiences in Europe, America, and Asia.
