Orpheus Chamber Orchestra and Bomsori Kim at Carnegie Hall

Bomsori makes her Orpheus Chamber Orchestra debut in the intimate Zankel Hall

• Orpheus is proud to collaborate with some of the finest classical soloists in the world, with a special focus on the staggering talents of the emerging generation
  

• On April 16, 2024 at 7PM, Orpheus will be joined by violinist Bomsori Kim in their program, “Exaltation,” with works by Bach, Mendelssohn, and Adolphus Hailstork

• Bomsori Kim, already a major household name in South Korea, made a significant breakthrough as an international performer with her signing as an exclusive Deutsche Grammophon artist in 2021. This performance marks her Zankel Hall debut

• Prior to this event, which marks Orpheus’s closing 2023/24 concert, the orchestra and Kim will perform this program at the Morris Museum in Morristown, NJ on April 14 at 5PM

• In addition to Ms. Kim, Orpheus is excited to include two of its own resident musicians as soloists, with recent appointee Emilie-Anne Gendron (violin) joining Kim in the famous Bach Concerto for Two Violins, and Elizabeth Mann (flute) featured in the B minor Orchestral Suite No. 2

Morris Museum, Morristown, NJ (April 14, 2024, 5PM)

Carnegie Hall - Zankel Hall, New York, NY (April 16, 2024, 7PM)

ADOLPHUS HAILSTORK | Sonata da Chiesa

MENDELSSOHN | Violin Concerto in D minor
Bomsori Kim, violin

BACH | Concerto for Two Violins in D minor, BWV 1043
Bomsori Kim, violin
Emilie-Anne Gendron, violin

BACH Orchestral Suite No. 2 in B minor, BWV 1067
Elizabeth Mann, flute

This  concert is made possible by  the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature

About Orpheus Chamber Orchestra

Orpheus Chamber Orchestra is a radical experiment in musical democracy, proving for fifty years what happens when exceptional artists gather with total trust in each other and faith in the creative process. Orpheus began in 1972 when cellist Julian Fifer assembled a group of New York freelancers in their early twenties to play orchestral repertoire as if it were chamber music. In that age of co-ops and communes, the idealistic Orpheans snubbed the “corporate” path of symphony orchestras and learned how to play, plan and promote concerts as a true collective, with leadership roles rotating from the very first performance.

It’s one thing for the four players of a string quartet to lean into the group sound and react spontaneously, but with 20 or 30 musicians together, the complexities and payoffs get magnified exponentially. Within its first decade, Orpheus made Carnegie Hall its home and became a global sensation through its tours of Europe and Asia. Its catalog of recordings for Deutsche Grammophon, Nonesuch and other labels grew to include more that 70 albums that still stand as benchmarks of the chamber orchestra repertoire, including Haydn symphonies, Mozart concertos, and twentieth-century gems by Stravinsky, Schoenberg, Ravel, and Bartók.

The sound of Orpheus is defined by its relationships, and guest artists have always been crucial partners in the process. Orpheus brings the best out of its collaborators, and those bonds deepen over time, as heard in the long arc of music-making with soloists such as Richard Goode and Branford Marsalis, and in the commitment to welcoming next-generation artists including Nobuyuki Tsujii and Tine Thing Helseth. Breaking down the barriers of classical repertoire, partnerships with Brad Mehldau, Wayne Shorter, Ravi Shankar, and many others from the sphere of jazz and beyond have redefined what a chamber orchestra can do. Relationships with composers and dozens of commissions have been another crucial way that Orpheus stretches itself, including a role for Jessie Montgomery as the orchestra’s first ever Artistic Partner. Having proven the power of direct communication and open-mindedness within the ensemble, the only relationship Orpheus has never had any use for is one with a conductor.

At home in New York and in the many concert halls it visits in the U.S. and beyond, Orpheus begins its next fifty years with a renewed commitment to enriching and reflecting the surrounding community. It will continue its groundbreaking work with those living with Alzheimer’s Disease through Orpheus Reflections,and the Orpheus Academy as well as the Orpheus Leadership Institute spread the positive lessons of trust and democracy to young musicians and those in positions of power. Each year, Access Orpheus reaches nearly 2000 public school students in all five boroughs of New York City, bringing music into their communities and welcoming them to Carnegie Hall. Always evolving as artists and leaders, the Orpheus musicians carry this communal legacy forward, counting on their shared artistry and mutual respect to make music and effect change.

About Bomsori Kim

In February 2021, Bomsori signed in Berlin the exclusive contract with the Deutsche Grammophon label.

Bomsori's 2023/24 season is packed with exciting highlights, including her debut performances at the BBC Proms with the BBC Philharmonic and at the Hollywood Bowl with the Los Angeles Philharmonic. She will also be on tour with the Tonhalle Orchestra Zürich and Paavo Järvi and will make debuts with the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France and Santtu-Matias Rouvali, the Pittsburgh Symphony and James Gaffigan, and the Orquesta y Coro Nacionales de España and Krzysztof Urbanski. Furthermore, Bomsori will make her Concertgebouw debut with the Residentie Orkest, Vienna Konzerthaus debut with Vienna Symphony and Ha-na Chang and return to the Montreal Symphony Orchestra and the Singapore Symphony. She will also embark on tours with the Vienna Symphony Orchestra in Asia and the Festival Strings Lucerne in Germany, where she will make her debut at the Elbphilharmonie.

Looking back at her 2022/23 season, Bomsori had many highlights as well. She toured with the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra and Lahav Shani, performed with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and Vasily Petrenko, and debuted with the Barcelona Symphony Orchestra and the Gulbenkian Orchestra. Bomsori also returned to perform with the Danish National Symphony under the direction of Fabio Luisi and the San Francisco Symphony in a recital. She made appearances in Germany with the Basel Chamber Orchestra in Stuttgart and Freiburg, as well as with the Bavarian Radio Chamber Orchestra in Munich.

In 2022 Bomsori performed Bruch's Concerto No.1 at the "Concerts in the Parks" in New York and at Bravo! Vail Festival with the New York Philharmonic and Jaap van Zweden.

Bomsori was the Focus Artist of the Rheingau Musik Festival 2021 and in the same year began a 5-year residency at the Gstaad Menuhin Festival as Menuhin's Heritage Artist.

Bomsori has had the privilege of performing under the direction of multiple conductors, including Fabio Luisi, Jaap van Zweden, Marin Alsop, Lahav Shani, Vasily Petrenko, Pablo Heras-Casado, Hannu Lintu, Sakari Oramo, Anja Bilhmaier, Giancarlo Guerrero with numerous leading orchestras, such as New York Philharmonic, Danish National Orchestra, Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Moscow Symphony Orchestra, Montreal Symphony Orchestra, Belgian National Orchestra, Warsaw National Philharmonic Orchestra, NDR Radiophilharmonie Hannover, Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra, Camerata Salzburg, Munich Chamber Orchestra, Basel Chamber Orchestra amongst others.

Bomsori has appeared at numerous venues worldwide, such as Musikverein Golden Hall in Vienna, Tchaikovsky Hall in Moscow, the Herkulessaal and the Prinzregententheater in Munich, Berlin Philharmonic, Rudolfinum and Smetana Hall in Prague, Carnegie Hall and Lincoln Center in New York.

In addition to winning the 62nd ARD International Music Competition, Bomsori is a prize winner of the Tchaikovsky International Competition, Queen Elisabeth Competition, International Jean Sibelius Violin Competition, Joseph Joachim International Violin Competition Hannover, Montreal International Musical Competition, Sendai International Music Competition and the 15th International Henryk Wieniawski Violin Competition. Bomsori received the 2018 Young Artist Award from the Korean Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism, and the Korean Music Association’s 2019 Young Artist Award. In 2020, she was presented with the 4th G.rium Artists Award by the Foundation Academia Platonica.

In June 2021 Bomsori released her first Deutsche Grammophon solo Album, Violin on Stage, with NFM Wroclaw Philharmonic and Giancarlo Guerrero.The duo album with pianist Rafał Blechacz, featuring works by Fauré, Debussy, Szymanowski and Chopin, was released in February 2019 by Deutsche Grammophon. The album won the Fryderyk Music Award for “Best Polish Album Abroad” for their DG recording of French and Polish repertoire.

Born in South Korea, Bomsori received a Bachelor degree at Seoul National University, where she studied with Young Uck Kim. She also earned her Master of Music Degree and Artist Diploma at The Juilliard School where she studied with Sylvia Rosenberg and Ronald Copes.

She performs on the Guarnerius del Gesù violin “ex-Moller,” Cremona, 1725, on extended loan through the generous efforts of The Samsung Foundation of Culture of Korea and The Stradivari Society of Chicago, Illinois.