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Gold Medalist at the 2003 Henryk Szeryng International Violin Competition in Mexico, Grand Prize winner at the 2004 Mizner Centre for the Arts Music Scholarship and special jury prize winner at the 2001 Sarasate International Violin Competition in Spain, violinist Sylvia Kim has been a winner in local, national, and international competitions since age 11.
Since she first began studying at the age of 3 with Carol Cole and continuing with Lynn University artist faculty, Sergiu Schwartz, she has performed as a soloist with the State of Mexico Symphony Orchestra, Czech Moravian Virtuosi Orchestra, Florida Philharmonic, Montgomery Symphony, Redlands Symphony Orchestra, Harid Philharmonia and the Lynn Philharmonia. She has collaborated with conductors such as Enrique Batiz, George Albert Schram, James Brooks-Bruzzese, Arthur Weisberg and Jon Robertson.
Sylvia regularly participates at music festivals in the United States and abroad such as the Boston University Tanglewood Institute, New York String Orchestra Seminar at Carnegie Hall, Indiana String Academy, Bowdoin Music Festival, the Soesterberg Festival in the Netherlands and the Taos School of Music. Most recently, she was invited to Music from Angel Fire.
As an avid chamber musician, she has collaborated in performance artists such as Gary Graffman, William Preucil, Peter Wiley, and Ida Kavafian. She received her BM from Lynn University in 2005 and pursued further studies at the Curtis Institute of Music with Pamela Frank and Ida Kavafian where she served as concertmaster of the Curtis Symphony Orchestra. She has been a member of the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra since 2008.
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