SOUTH KOREAN CELLIST
TAE-YEON KIM
QUEEN ELISABETH COMPETITION 2026
Biography
Tae-Yeon Kim, cellistQueen Elisabeth Competition 2026Second Prize · Klara Audience Award
Education & early years
A valedictorian of Yewon School, Tae-Yeon Kim was admitted to the Curtis Institute of Music at fourteen. She studies with Gary Hoffman and Peter Wiley as the Jacqueline du Pré Memorial Fellow. A Kumho Young Artist, she has also received support from the Hyundai Motor Chung Mong-Koo Foundation.
Her distinctions include First Prize at the 2024 Witold Lutosławski International Cello Competition, First Prize in the junior Antonio Janigro Competition, and First Prize and the Conductor’s Prize at the Gustav Mahler Competition. She also received Second Prize and the Best Bach Performance Award at the Young Tchaikovsky Competition, the Bohuslav Martinů special prize at Prague Spring, and a share of the 2024 Frans Helmerson Award at Kronberg Academy.
On stage
She has appeared as a soloist with the Warsaw Philharmonic, Brussels Philharmonic, Belgian National Orchestra, Kremerata Baltica, Württembergische Philharmonie Reutlingen, Brevard Festival Orchestra and Chattanooga Symphony, among others. In October 2026, she joined Łukasz Borowicz and the Poznań Philharmonic for the opening of the Henryk Wieniawski International Violin Competition.
The instrument
She plays an Omobono Stradivarius cello, made in Cremona in 1740, with support from Christophe Landon Rare Violins.
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