Conductor Chris Younghoon Kim has a broad repertoire in instrumental and choral works and is particularly active in promoting new music. He holds a Bachelor of Music in music education and oboe performance from Northwestern University and a Master of Music in orchestral conducting from the University of Michigan.  He has continued his conducting studies in master classes with Johannes Schlaefli, Neeme Järvi, Jorma Panula, Martyn Brabbins, Gunther Schuller, Gerhard Markson and Kenneth Kiesler.  Kim serves as the Artistic Director of Brave New Works, a vibrant new music ensemble of ten musicians dedicated to performing 20th and 21st-century compositions.  He is also the conductor/founding member of the Boston-based Kalistos Chamber Orchestra. He has also been active as a guest conductor of Boston's new music group, Firebird Ensemble. Before coming to Cornell in 2004, he taught at Tufts University and served as resident conductor of the Mozart Society Orchestra at Harvard University.  His first-held professional position was the assistant conductor for the Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra.

At Cornell, Chris Kim conducts the Symphony Orchestra, the Chamber Orchestra, and teaches conducting. He works closely with the students in the D.M.A. program in composition, assisting them in presenting their new works in concert.

For more information on the orchestras at Cornell, visit http://www.arts.cornell.edu/orchestra.


Recent Performances

Selected Performances

• Ensemble Orchestral de Paris as part of the Vendome Conducting Academy, August 2008
  
• Teplice Symphony Orchestra, Teplice, Czech Republic, June 2008
• Denison University Chamber Orchestra as part of the Vail Concert Series with Yuja Wang, April 2008
• Brave New Works Residency in Ithaca, Syracuse, Rochester and NYC as part of the Mellon Corridor Initiative, April 2008
  
• Ensemble Divertimento, Milan, Italy, March 2008
• Luzern Festival Strings, Luzern, Switzerland, February, 2008
  
• Karlovy Vary Symphony Orchestra, Karlovy Vary, Czech Republic, January, 2008
• Firebird Ensemble, December 2007
• Brave New Works Residency at Boston Conservatory and Eastern Nazarene College, November 2007
  
• Joint Production of Carlisle Floyd's opera Slow Dusk with Theater Dept and Cornell Orchestras Schwartz Center for the Performing Arts, November 2007
• Brave New Works Residecy at Kerrytown Concert House and Windsor Art Gallery, October 2007
  
• International Bartók Seminar and Festival Ensemble, Szombathely, Hungary, July 2007
• Kalistos Chamber Orchestra Four Boston composer premieres at Pickman Concert Hall, Boston, MA, March 2007
• Brave New Works Residency at Williams College, February 2007
• Cornell Symphony Orchestra tour to Berlin, Germany, January, 2007
  
• Delta Festival Ballet and Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra, December, 2006
  
• Royal Irish Academy Chamber Orchestra at Weill Recital Hall in Carnegie Hall, October 2006
  
• Kammerakademie Neuss am Rhein at the International Summer Academy Salzburg, Austria, July 2006
  
• Peter and the Wolf with A.D. White House Professor John Cleese, April 2006

Contacts

Office: Lincoln Hall 332 — Office Hours by Appointment
Email: cyk8(at)cornell.edu
Phone: (607) 255-8614