Hannah Chaewon Kim
Violinist
Violinist

Internationally Active Violinist

A performance career spanning the United States, Korea, and Europe — from Carnegie Hall's Weill Recital Hall to the Berliner Philharmonie.

Violinist Hannah Chaewon Kim
Hannah Chaewon Kim
Hannah Chaewon Kim
Hannah Chaewon Kim
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Hannah Chaewon Kim

Hannah Chaewon Kim portrait Photograph · 2025

Hannah Chaewon Kim, a native of Seoul, South Korea, is an internationally active violinist whose performance career spans the United States, Korea, and Europe.

Highlights include appearances at Carnegie Weill Recital Hall, Lincoln Center's Bruno Walter Auditorium, Berliner Philharmonie, Seoul Arts Center, Lotte Concert Hall, Perigee Hall, and Jordan Hall. She has appeared as a featured soloist with the Prime Philharmonic, Seoul Virtuosi Chamber Orchestra, and the Seoul Soloists Cello Ensemble, and has served as Concertmaster of the NEC Philharmonia.

Her chamber music engagements include the First Monday Series, NEC Honors Ensemble, the NEC "Connections" Series, the Woodlawn Ensemble, and numerous festival residencies. She has collaborated with distinguished artists including Colin Carr, Michael Kannen, Hye-Jin Kim, Kirsten Docter, Max Levinson, Misha Amory, and members of internationally renowned string quartets.

An internationally active violinist whose performance career spans the United States, Korea, and Europe.Artist Biography

An enthusiastic chamber musician, Kim has participated in major festivals including the Four Seasons Chamber Music Festival, Lake Champlain Chamber Music Festival, the Perlman Music Program, Taos School of Music, Yellow Barn, Music@Menlo, the Heifetz Institute, PLZ Festival in the Korean DMZ, Sejong International Music Festival, and Interclassic Music Academy in Berlin.

Kim's awards include first prizes at the East Coast International Competition, Manhattan International Music Competition, New York Artists International Competition, and SAC International Music Competition, among others. She is a recipient of the NEC Dean's Scholarship and the NEC Presidential Distinction Award, and has been featured several times in The Strad Korea, reflecting her active presence in both the U.S. and Korean musical communities.

Kim has maintained a long-standing relationship with the New England Conservatory, where she earned her Bachelor of Music (2020), Master of Music (2022), and Graduate Diploma (2024), and where she will begin the Doctor of Musical Arts program. Having studied at NEC for nearly a decade, she developed her musical foundation under the guidance of Soovin Kim and Donald Weilerstein. Prior to coming to the United States, she studied with Kyungsun Lee and Seyoung Lee.

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The Strad Korea — Cover Story, July 2024
The Strad Korea · Cover Story · July 2024

Where the Pain Has Passed, Soothed by Music

음악으로 보듬는 아픔이 지나간 자리 · 바이올리니스트 김채원

In this July 2024 cover feature for The Strad Korea, Hannah Chaewon Kim speaks with rare candor about the hardest chapter of her life. Having entered the New England Conservatory at seventeen and studied for nearly a decade with Soovin Kim and Donald Weilerstein, she was diagnosed with lymphoma in September 2022 and — for the first time — set the violin aside through a year of chemotherapy.

She recalls the fear of returning to the instrument, the slow rebuilding of her playing, and the moment a single recording made her feel that, even in a weakened body, her identity as a musician was still alive. In July 2024 she marked her return to the stage as violin soloist with the Seoul Soloists Cello Ensemble at the Seoul Arts Center's IBK Chamber Hall, performing Piazzolla's Histoire du Tango — resolved to become, in her words, a messenger for the greatness of music.

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