Gyehee Kim

Dvořák's From the New World stood at the centre of the programme in which Gyehee Kim was heard in Daejeon on 31 August 2024 with the Daejeon Festival Orchestra, a concert that also brought forward Hayang Park. She studied with Joseph Silverstein at the Curtis Institute of Music and with Young Uck Kim at Seoul National University, and did postgraduate work in Munich with Lena Neudauer and Christoph Poppen. First prize at the George Enescu International Competition came in 2016, and later the first prize and gold medal at the International Tchaikovsky Competition in 2023; she has played with the George Enescu Philharmonic, Les Musiciens du Louvre, the Stuttgart Philharmonic and the Pleven Philharmonic, and her chamber and festival engagements have taken her through Europe, Asia and the Americas.