Chris Younghoon Kim

updated 6.16.05

Chris Younghoon Kim Brave New Works Kalistos Chamber Orchestra Cornell University Contact info mobile: 607-229-3405 email: cyk8(at)cornell.edu Chris Younghoon Kim's Bio Upcoming Performances Recent Performances Besancon Competition Short bio for programs Letters from Kenneth Kiesler from Stephen Dankner from Mike Masengarb from Erik Santos from Waukegan Symphony from Larry Newland letter from Besancon competition from Student Composer's Inc from Usha Sellers from Jeffrey Rawitsch more pictures	Experience Appointed December 2003 for beginning August 2004 Director of Orchestras at Cornell University, Ithaca, NY[tenure Track position] -Conduct Cornell Symphony Orchestra and Cornell Chamber Orchestra -guest conduct Ensemble X -Chamber Music Coach -Professor of Conducting 2002-Current [since March 2002] Conductor of Kalistos Chamber Orchestra -Led Inaugural Concert featuring World Premiere of Gabriela Lena Frank's Leyendas: An Andean Walkabout -Led residency at Phillips Exeter Academy -Led New York City debut at Merkin Hall with Music of Joan Tower and Britten -Will lead residency at Denison College, Ohio March 2006 1997-Current Artistic Director & co-founder of Brave New Works - Ann Arbor, MI -Duties included: Produce concerts with resident performing ensemble(Ensemble Collective) and serve as principal conductor for all concerts involving large ensembles. Supervise concert production; securing venues, advertising, marketing, fund raising. -Finished inaugural season & all subsequent seasons under budget -Guest residency at Detroit Institute for the Arts in October 2005 -Led 10 day Tufts residency in June 2004 -BNW has been selected as the Ensemble in residence at the Bowling Green New Music Festival in October 2003. Appointed August 2003 for 2003-2004 Academic Year Resident conductor of the Mozart Society Orchestra at Harvard University -Guest conduct the MSO in the November and March concert. -select concerto competition winner 2002-2003 Interim Director of Choral Activities at Tufts University - Medford, MA -Direct University Chorale and University Chamber Singers -Led 2003 Tour of Spain with the Singers -Led 2003 New York City tour and performance at Cathedral of St. John the Divine with Tufts University Chorale -Directed world premiere of Don Schechter's Storm a contata for mixed voices and Orchestra 2002 Winter Semester Interim Director of Orchestra at Tufts University - Medford, MA -Led East Coast Premiere of Kevin Beaver'sNative Tongue -Led the Tufts Symphony Orchestra on tour to Rhodes and Athens, Greece -Conduct the Tufts Symphony Orchestra -Coach Chamber Music -Teach and advise conducting students 2000-2001 [August 2000-December 2001] Assistant Conductor of Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra- New Orleans, LA -Duties included: Produce and conduct Young people's concert in coordination with Education committee. -Conduct concerts such as Discovery Series Concert, Nutcracker Performances and other performances as needed. -Outreach Educational Programs in New Orleans area schools -Spokes person for the Louiana Philharmonic Orchestra -Find the Phil Series Director 2001 - Winter Semester Visiting Lecturer at University of New Orleans -Teach Music Appreciation Course for Non-music Major students. 1996-1997 Music Director Comic Opera Guild - Ann Arbor, MI -Duties included: Organizing staff (stage director, producer, stage manager and stage crew), Auditioned all chorus and principal cast members. Coaching of leads, preparation of chorus and orchestra. Active in fundraising effort for the company. -Season highlight: Franz Lehar's "The Merry Widow" 1996-1998 Assistant Conductor and Personnel Manager of University Symphony Orchestra - University of Michigan -Duties include: Covering all concert repertoire, rehearsing ensemble in absence of Music Director(Kenneth Kiesler) Collaborated with student colleagues on two annual Halloween Pops concerts, selling over eight-thousand tickets each for an annual gross of over $60,000. -Perform management and administrative duties, including concert program production and personnel management. -Conducted the World Premiere of Tom Schnauber's "Indigo Street" on February 3, 1998 -Conducted the World Premiere of Evan Chamber's "Lament" from Three Islands on March 26, 1997 1996-1997 Conductor of Campus Philharmonia - University of Michigan -Duties included: Organizing staff (manager/librarian, stage manager) serving as conductor for orchestra of non-music majors. Auditioned players, planned programs (in collaboration with Director of Orchestras, Kenneth Kiesler). -Season highlight: World Premier of Nag Bhushan's "Lysistrata" & Kevin Beavers' "Nocturne for solo flute, harp and strings" 1994-1996 Music Teacher at Quincy School District - Quincy, IL -K-12 certified in instrumental and general music in State of Illinois -Full time Music teacher of grades 4-12 in general music, band, jazz and orchestra -Founder of Bounding Board Project, a commissioning project to increase original music for students. Resulted in five world premieres 1994-1996 Assistant Conductor of Quincy Symphony Orchestra, Quincy, IL -Duties include: Covering all concert repertoire, rehearsing ensemble in absence of Music Director(Clyde Bassett). -Perform with the symphony on principal instrument, oboe -Direct the Quincy Youth Orchestra in rehearsals and sectionals -Member of the Symphony board as a musician's representative -Music Director of Quincy Summer Symphony, a reading orchestra
	Education University of Michigan - Ann Arbor, MI M.M. in orchestral conducting (1998) Recipient of 1997 & 1998 Regents Fellowship Nominated by the conducting faculty for the 1997 Presser Award Graduate Student Instructor Northwestern University - Evanston, IL B.M. in Music Education and Oboe Performance (1994) Minor in Composition Juilliard School - pre-college division - New York, NY Diploma from the pre-college division (1990) Majors: Oboe Performance & composition
	Guest Conducting December, 2004 Firebird Ensemble concerts in Boston and Rhode Island Jon Deak's Passion of Scrooge July, 2004 Kinhaven Summer Music Camp Concert with Kinhaven Orchestra Prokofiev's Romeo and Juliet May, 2004 Firebird Ensemble Schoenberg's Pierrot Lunaire May, 2004 Hope in the Proles by David Little concert @ MIT March 2003 International Tour to Madrid, Toledo, Seville, Spain with Tufts Chamber Singers January 2003 Firebird Ensemble concerts in Boston and New York featuring Juliana Trivers work December 2002 Louisiana Philharmonic, New Orleans, LA Nutcracker December 2002 Toledo Symphony, toledo, OH Holiday Concerts October 2002 Honolulu Symphony, Honolulu, HI Assistant conductor finalist and conductor for 2 young people's concerts June 2002 National Symphony of Ireland, Dublin, Ireland Return engagement Young Artist Concert April 2002 Connecticut Valley Chamber Orchestra, Hartford, CT Subscription concert February 2002 Rainier Symphony Orchestra, WA Subscription concert [Finalist in Music Director Search] January 2002 Tufts Symphony Orchestra's Tour to Rhodes and Athens, Greece December 2001 Delta Festival Ballet w/ Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra New Orleans, LA Nutcracker Performances December 2001 Prince George Symphony Orchestra, British Columbia, Canada Nutcracker Performances July 14, 2001 Participating conductor for Final concert of the Orchestra Orchestra Canada Workshop with Vancouver Symphony Orchestra July 6, 2001 Participating conductor for Final concert of the Dublin Masterclasses with National Symphony of Ireland February, 2001 Guest conductor / Clinician for New Orleans String Festival New Orleans, LA January, 2001 Cellos Galore Program at Cranbrook Church in Bloomfield Hills, MI September 10, 2000 Rose City Chamber Orchestra, Portland, Oregon Guest Conductor for Season opening Concert. July 21, 2000 Brevard Music Center, Brevard, North Carolina Participating Conductor for final concert of Conductor's Workshop with Gunther Schuller. June 3, 2000 Scotia Festival of Music Guest Conductor for High light concert with Festival Young Artists in a performance of Copland's Appalachian Spring March, 2000 Society of International Composers Conference in Ann Arbor, MI Guest conductor in collaboration with composers Jorge Grossman & Sinae Kim March, 2000 Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra New Orleans, LA Winner of LPO's search for assistant conductor November, 1999 St. Louis Symphony Orchestra St. Louis, MO cover conductor for John Adams and Osmo Vanska November, 1999 Waukegan Symphony Orchestra Waukegan, IL Finalist in Music Director search July, 1999 Brevard Music Festival Brevard, NC Festival Orchestra under the guidance of Gunther Schuller & David Effron June, 1999 Oregon Bach Festival Eugene, OR Bach Festival Orchestra & Choir under the guidance of Helmuth Rilling November, 1998 Midwest Composer's Forum Iowa City, IA Guest conductor October, 1998 Illinois Symphony Orchestra Springfield & Normal, IL Halloween pops concert October, 1998 International Computer Music Conference Ann Arbor, MI Guest Conductor February, 1998 Doctoral Degree Recital - Ann Arbor, MI Conducted Handel's Concerto in Bb major Op. 7 No. 1 for Organ and orchestra, with soloist Hanna Song October, 1997 University of Michigan Percussion Ensemble In a performance of Alberto Ginastera's "Cantata Para America Magica", a piece involving 2 piano, celesta, soprano and 14 percussionists July, 1997 Opava State Opera House - Opava, Czech Republic Part of International Opera Worskhop with Georg Tintner Production of Mozart's "Die Zauberflöte" April, 1997 West Bohemian Symphony Orchestra - Marienbad, Czech Republic Special Award Concert, a full program with the music of Rossini, Mozart, Ravel, and Kodaly June, 1996 Hradec Kralove Philharmonic - Hradec Kralove, Czech Republic Czech Music Workshop Final Concert conducted Dvorak's Cello Concerto July, 1993 Conductor's Institute Orchestra - Columbia, SC One of five conductors during the Composer-conductor week Rehearsal and World Premier Performance of Greg Pascuzzi's Concerto for Alto Saxophone and chamber orchestra. Worked closely with Karel Husa	Festivals and Workshops June, 2004 St Magnus Festival at Kirkwall, Orkney Scotland Participating conductor [1 of 8 conductors] masterclass session with BBC Scottish and Nash Ensemble September 2-7, 2003 Eduardo Mata International conducting Competition Mexico City, Mexico Participating conductor [1 of 12 conductors] July 7-17, 2003 Neeme Jarvi's masterclass for conductors at the Oistrakh Festival in Parnu, Estonia Participating conductor [1 of 14 conductors] Selected to conduct the high light concert[4 out of 14 were selected for the concert with the Edinburg Youth Symphony] July, 2003 First Maikop International workshop/compeititon Maikop, Russia Participating conductor [1 of 8 conductors] Prize Winner selected to return for a full concert engagement during 2003-2004 season June, 2003 St Magnus Festival at Kirkwall, Orkney Scotland Participating conductor [1 of 8 conductors] May, 2003 ASOL workshop in Chicago with Chicago Youth Symphony Participating conductor July 2002 Mozarteum, in Salzburg, Austria study with Gerhard Markson selected for final concert [5 selected out of 9 conductors] May 2002 Workshop with Joe Gifford in Fredonia, NY April 2002 CG workshop in Puerto Rico studied with Harold Farberman July 2001 Workshop with the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra with Gustav Meier & Bramwell Tovey: selected for final concert [6 selected out of 14] July 2001 Workshop with the Irleand National Symphony in Dublin with Gerhard Markson; selected for final concert June 2001 Workshop with Joe Gifford April 2001 Participating conductor at ASOL workshop in Seattle with Seattle Youth Symphony July, 2000 Participating conductor at the Brevard Music Center, Conducting Workshop Under the guidance of Gunther Schuller and David Effron; selected for final concert June, 2000 Workshop with Joe Gifford June, 2000 Conductor's Guild Workshop in Boston Participating Conductor with Larry Leighton Smith and David Epstein May -June, 2000 Scotia Festival of New Music, assistant to Alain Trudel, selected for young artist concert March 2000, New York, NY Participated with Daniel Barenboim at Carnegie Hall Professional Workshop Series September, 1999 International Young Conductor's Competition at Besancon Semi Finalists Top American Participant Summer '99 Scotia Fesitval of Music student of Peter Lieberson & Karla Lemon Summer '98 Festival at Sandpoint Student of Gunther Schuller Summer '97 Opava Opera Workshop - Opava, Czech Republic Instructors: Georg Tintner, Larry Newland Summer '97, '98, '01 Conductors Retreat at Medomak, ME Student of Kenneth Kiesler, Marianne Ploger, Joseph Gifford May '97 Conductor's Guild Workshop - Evanston, IL Instructors: Robert Spano, Victor Yampolski March '97 Participant - Christophe Eschenbach Masterclass Chicago Symphony Orchestra Residency in Ann Arbor, MI April '97 Participant - ASOL workshop - Ann Arbor, MI Instructors: Kenneth Kiesler and Gustav Meier Summer '96 Czech Music Workshop - Hradec Kralove, Czech Republic Instructors: Frantisek Vajnar & Otakar Trihlik Summer '96 International Workshop - Zlin, Czech Republic Instructors: Tsung Yeh, Kirk Trevor & Leos Svarovsky Award winner of 1996 International Workshop March '96 Participant - ASOL workshop - Chicago, IL Instructors: Kenneth Kiesler and Daniel Lewis Summer '94, '95 Practical Workshop - Zlin, Czech Republic Instructors: Tsung Yeh, Kirk Trevor & Johannes Schlaefli Summer '93 Conductor's Institute of South Carolina - Columbia, SC Instructors: Samuel Jones, Karel Husa, Michael Morgan, Paul Vermel; selected for composer/conductor week
	Teachers Conducting 1996-present Kenneth Kiesler, University of Michigan 1994-1996 Tsung Yeh, South Bend 1994 Dr. John P. Paynter, Northwestern University 1993 Dr. Frederick Ockwell, Northwestern University Ear Training, since 1996 with Marianne Ploger Movement Joe Gifford since 2000 Composition 1998 Bright Sheng, University of Michigan 1990-1994 William M. Karlins, Northwestern University 1987-1990 Bruce Adolphe, Juilliard School Oboe 1990-1994 Ray Still, Northwestern University 1987-1990 Lois Wann, Juilliard School with my wife Kay in Berlin	References Kenneth Kiesler Prof. of Conducting , Dir. of University Orchestras, University of Michigan kiesler@umich.edu Gerhard Markson Principal Conductor of NSO of Ireland c/o Stephen's Hall Hotel Lower Leeson, Dublin 2, Ireland Leslie Bassett Professor Emeritus, University of Michigan bassettl@umich.edu John McDonald Department Chair Tufts University (617) 627-5624 john.mcdonald@tufts.edu Joe Gifford Movement teacher of Conductors and Musicians (617)723-6048 Joegee27@aol.com Sharon Litwin Executive Director of Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra 305 Baronne Street Suite 600 New Orleans, LA 70112 (504) 523-6530 slitwin@lpomusic.com Givonna Joseph Education Director of Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra 305 Baronne Street Suite 600 New Orleans, LA 70112 (504) 523-6530 gjoseph@lpomusic.com Evan Chambers Pro. Composition, University of Michigan (734) 764-2527 evankc@umich.edu Erik Santos Prof. Composition, University of Michigan (734) 647-3337 esantos@umich.edu Bright Sheng Prof. Composition, University of Michigan (734)647-9413 bsheng@umich.edu
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