Jin
Kim is in his fourth season as Music Director of the Atlantic Symphony
Orchestra. Prior to the name change, he served as Music Director of HIngham Symphony Orchestra for ten seasons. Under his leadership, Atlantic Symphony has transformed into one of the premier
professional orchestras in the New England. The music critics
including The Boston Globe and the The Patriot Ledger consistently praise the orchestra’s
performances as “spectacular, dramatic, expressive, confident and
unified”.
Kim
is the sole recipient of the 2003 Robert Shaw Conducting Fellowship, a
prestigious career development award underwritten by the National
Endowment for the Arts, presented to one outstanding conductor in North America. In 2010, he was one of 12 conductors selected from 200 applicants by Maestro David Zinman to serve as a conducting fellow at the Aspen Music Festival.
Through other prestigious professional development programs, Kim has conducted the National Symphony (DC) and National Arts Center
(Ottawa) orchestras. After serving as the Music Director of the Empire State Youth Orchestras (NY), he has been a frequent guest conductor of orchestras at Boston University and Boston Conservatory. At Boston University, he also taught instrumental conducting and served as a visiting conductor of the Boston University Chamber
Orchestra. Since 2001, he has also been a regular guest conductor of Bucheon Philharmonic, one of the leading professional orchestras in Korea.
Equally versatile in the choral-orchestral genre, Kim was the winner of the 1995 American Choral Directors Association's National Conducting Competition and a founding Music Director of Magnum Chorum in Minnesota.
As
a pianist he was a finalist at the Minnesota
Orchestra Concerto Competition and an active chamber musician. Also an accomplished professional
singer, he has performed at Carnegie Hall and other major international venues as a member of leading
professional choruses in the United States including the Robert Shaw Institute
Singers, the Dale Warland
Singers, and the Oregon Bach Festival Chorus.
Born
in Seoul, South Korea, Kim immigrated to the United States at age
eleven. He is a graduate of St. Olaf College and the Eastman School of Music where he studied piano
with Rebecca Penneys and conducting with David Effron. Since then he has worked extensively with renowned Finnish conducting pedagogue Jorma Panula and participated in Master Classes with Otto-Werner Mueller, Leonard Slatkin and Hugh Wolff.
