Tae-Yeon Kim

Biography supplied for the 2024 competition.

Born in Seoul, Korea in 2006, cellist Tae-Yeon Kim recently won first prize in the 12th Lutoslawski International Cello Competition in Poland. She also won eleven more special prizes including an outstanding performance of Grave by Lutoslawski.
Kim was born into a family of musicians and started playing the cello at the age of 7. Her first debut recital was at the age of 12 at the Kumho Arts Center in Seoul, Korea and received a scholarship from The Hyundai Automobile Company and the Kumho Musician Award dedicated to the most talented young musicians from Korea.
She has performed as a soloist with the Novosibirsk Youth Orchestra, Saint Petersburg City orchestra, Suzuki Orchestra, Kim Po Philharmonic, Rium Philharmonic, Finland Sibelius Orchestra and more.
She is recipient of a number of main prizes as well as honorable mentions, such as the silver medal and the best interpretation of Bach at the Young Tchaikovsky Competition, first prize (in the junior category) at the A. Janigro International Cello Competition (Croatia), second prize at the Osaka International Music Competition (Japan) and 1st prize and the conductor’s prize at the G. Mahler International Cello Competition (Germany). She also has made a mark as the Youngest semi-finalist of the International Paulo Competition in Helsinki (2023).
She performs worldwide as a soloist with the International orchestras such as the Finland Sibelius Orchestra, Novosibirsk Youth Orchestra, Saint Petersburg City orchestra, Suzuki Orchestra, Kim Po Philharmonic, Rium Philharmonic and now has further concert engagements with the Arthur

Rubinstein Philharmonic, Tadeusz Szeiligowski Philharmonic, Feliks Nowowiejski Warmia-Mazuria Philharmonic, Tadeusz Baird Philharmonic, Henryk Wieniawski Philharmonic, Karol Szymanowski Philharmonic, Henryk Mikolaj Gorecki Philharmonic, and Baltic Fryderyk Chopin Philharmonic, KT Orchestra. Also recitals at the Waterford Concert Series in Washington D.C in US and at the Seoul Arts center in Seoul, Korea.
From 2022, she is studying with Gary Hoffmann and Peter Wiley at the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia, US sponsored by Jeanette S.Epstein Memorial Fellow.