Minyoung Kim

Minyoung Kim was born in 1999 in Seoul, South Korea. She began her musical education at the age of 4 on the piano, and at 9 on the cello. She completed her bachelor's degree at Yonsei University with Prof. Sung-Won Yang. Since April 2023, Minyoung has been studying in the master's program at the Hanns Eisler University of Music in Berlin with Prof. Claudio Bohorquez. Young cellist had the opportunity to broaden her musical horizons by participating in Cello Akademie Rutesheim, Virtuoso&Belcanto Festival, Festival Cello Leon,Casalmaggiore International Music Festival, Borromeo Music Festival, and Spring Festival in New York, where she performed at Lincoln Convention Center Rose Hall. Minyoung received important impetus from master classes given by Wen-Sinn Yang, Natalie Clein, Tamás Varga, Troels Svane, Iaszlo Fenyo, Laurence Lesser, Johannes Krebs, Adrian Brendel, Emil Rovner, Quatour Modigliani, and Novus String Quartet. From January 2020 to March 2022, she was a member of the Seoul Metropolitan Youth Orchestra, and from March 2022 to December 2022, she was an academist of the Korean National Symphony Orchestra. Since November 2023, she has been an academist of the Hamburg Philharmonic State Orchestra.