Ji
Won Kim
attended the Victorian College of the Arts Secondary School (VCASS) and
Caulfield Grammar school under a full music scholarship. She studied
with Jung-sook Yoon and Miwako Abe before continuing her studies in
Europe and obtaining a Bachelor of Music with high distinction from the
Vienna Hochschule in 2004. She completed a Masters of Music with high
distinction at the University of Melbourne in 2008, under the guidance
of Nelli Shkolnikova. Ji Won is currently studying at the Sydney
Conservatorium with Alice Waten where she appreciates their support and
encouragement.
In Europe Ji Won won the
2005 International Johannes Brahms Competition, and second prize in the
Lisbon SIC International Violin Competition and the Slovenia Bled
International Competition. She also won the Stephanie Wohl Wettbewerb in
Vienna and Hephzibah Menuhin Memorial Award in 2007. Ji Won was the
2008 winner of the Australian Concerto and Vocal competition and also
recently won the Symphony Australia Young Performers Award string
section.
Ji Won has performed as
a soloist with the Adelaide Symphony Orchestra, Melbourne Youth
Orchestra, Swietokrzyska Philharmonic, Antonio Scontrino Orchestra,
Janáček Philharmonic Orchestra, Daegu Symphony and the Anton Bruckner
University Orchestra. Her mentor, John Hopkins, has stressed the
importance of community concerts and as such, Ji Won frequently performs
with community orchestras and for charity concerts which support North
Korean Orphanages.
Her future engagements
include concerts with Willoughby Symphony Orchestra, Stonnington
Symphony Orchestra and the Barrier Reef Orchestra.
