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Soyoun KimFlautist · CEO, Seoul Music Management · Founder, SWMF

FluteSeoul Flute Trio2027 Nova Lux Artist

Soyoun Kim is a flautist who left for Austria while still a student at Sunhwa Arts High School, graduating from the performance programme at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna (mdw) and its graduate school with a Magister Artium degree

In 2014 Kim co-founded the Seoul Flute Trio with Hyunim Yoon and Philipp Jundt, and continues to share the stage with principal players from the world's leading orchestras. As CEO of Seoul Music Management, Kim founded the Seoul Winter Music Festival, now in its third edition as one of Seoul's signature classical music festivals

Profile

EducationLeft for Austria while a student at Sunhwa Arts High School → University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna (mdw), undergraduate and graduate performance programmes, Magister Artium
TeachersWerner Tripp

Career

  • 2014–presentFounded the Seoul Flute Trio – performances and projects with principal players of the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, Berlin Philharmonic and Munich Philharmonic, among others, as well as Patrick Gallois and Henrik Wiese
  • Selected as a promising young performer by the Austrian-Korean Society – solo recital at the Tabak Art Centre in Austria and appearances on Austrian radio
  • Invited to perform at Musikwochen Millstatt in Austria and at the international guitar festival La Guitarra esencial
  • Korea Flutist Ensemble · Geumpa Ensemble – tours of Japan and the US, performances at the National Flute Association (NFA) and Japan Flute Association conventions
  • Principal flute of the Pro Art Orchester and the New Seoul Philharmonic; guest principal with the Seongnam Philharmonic and Gyeonggi Philharmonic orchestras; guest member of the Seoul Philharmonic Orchestra
  • Invited to the Neuchâtel festival in Switzerland and the Classix Festival in Romania

Festival & Teaching

  • PresentCEO of Seoul Music Management · Founder of the Seoul Winter Music Festival, now in its third edition
  • Founding member of the flute ensemble BeautiFL.Mozart · Music Director of the Sarang Flute Choir, Seoul Flute Trio and Flute&Friends
  • Former adjunct professor at Yeungnam University; visiting professor at the University of Suwon; teaches at Deokwon Arts High School and Sunhwa Arts Middle and High Schools