Short bio
[updated
June 23,
2006]
Conductor Chris Younghoon Kim has a broad
repertoire in instrumental
and choral works and is particularly active in promoting new music. He
holds a Bachelor of Music in music education and oboe performance from
Northwestern University, a Master of Music in orchestral conducting
from the University of Michigan, and has also studied composition. He
has continued his conducting studies in master classes with Neeme
Jarvi, Jorma Panula, Martyn Brabbins, Gunther Schuller, Gerhard
Markson, and Kenneth Kiesler. Kim serves as Artistic Director of Brave New Works,
a vibrant ensemble of ten musicians dedicated to performing new
compositions, and is the conductor and a founding member of the Kalistos Chamber Orchestra,
which is based in Boston. He has also been frequen guest conductor of
the Boston-based Firebird
Ensemble. Before
coming to Cornell in 2004 he taught at Tufts University, served as
resident conductor of the Mozart Society Orchestra at Harvard
University, and was assistant conductor for the Louisiana Philharmonic
Orchestra. In summer 2006, he will take part in masterclasses at the Mozarteum and at the
masterclasses at the Wiener-meisterkurse.
At Cornell Chris Younghoon Kim conducts the
Symphony Orchestra, the
Chamber Orchestra, and teaches conducting. He works closely with the
students in the D.M.A. program in composition, assisting them in
presenting their new works in concert. He is also a member of Ensemble
X, a professional chamber ensemble based in Ithaca that includes
faculty members from both Cornell and Ithaca College.
For more information on the orchestras at Cornell,
visit
http://www.arts.cornell.edu/orchestra.
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