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“Stylistic sensitivity and generous tonal nuance.”
Chicago Tribune
Siwoo Kim is a concert violinist based in New York City. He actively performs as soloist and chamber musician, and he is the founding co-artistic director of VIVO Music Festival in his hometown of Columbus, Ohio. He has performed as soloist with orchestras on four continents, and at chamber music series and festivals around the world.
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Siwoo Kim, violin · East Coast Chamber Orchestra
“Serenely elegiac.”
Twelve “slow movements of violin concertos” written as invitations for reflection and meditation. Released November 2025.
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VIVO Music Festival
The FestivalColumbus, Ohio
Founding Co-Artistic Director · Since 2015Chamber music, brought home.
Founded in 2015 with his friend and colleague, violist John Stulz, VIVO brings musicians from across the country home to Columbus each year. They rehearse in an assisted-living community with the residents listening in, play Beethoven for brewery crowds, and once gave Haas’s hour-long quartet from memory, in complete darkness.
Founding Co-Artistic Director · Since 2015The festival
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