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Guitarist Jinhee Kim, described by Slava Grigoryan as “a rising star in the classical music scene”, has stepped into the limelight with her emotive, powerful and deep music. She has recently performed concerts such as a solo recital at the “Basel Plucks” festival, in a series with internationally renowned artists, and Maurice Ohana's guitar concerto with the Basel Symphony Orchestra. During her studies, she received numerous prizes at international guitar competitions, e.g. “Maurizio Biasini” in Paris, “Ruggero Chiesa” in Italy and the “Pleven Guitar Festival” in Bulgaria. As early as 2010, she attracted attention as a soloist of the next generation when she won first prize at the age of eighteen at the Adelaide International Guitar Competition in Australia.
Her interest in contemporary music led her to ensemble activities. She is currently a member of the HOAX quartet in Basel and the ÉRMA ensemble in Cologne. Her sense of interpretation for contemporary music has already been rated as excellent. Out of her love for early music, she has participated in concerts of “Early Music Seoul” in Korea. Furthermore, she built up a comprehensive interpretation of early music by studying for two years at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis with Peter Croton in the Minor Variant Instrument in a historical context.
Her musical education includes both an artistic and a pedagogical side: concert exam with Prof. Michael Hampel at the University of Music Freiburg, Master Performance and Master Pedagogy with Prof. Pablo Márquez at the University of Music Basel. Above all, her interest in better performance and teaching led her to further studies in music physiology at the Zurich University of the Arts, where she has been acquiring knowledge about functional anatomy and brain physiology in connection with music making since 2019.
Jinhee Kim, born in 1992 in Seoul, Korea, came to Europe in 2014 with a love of music and will take up her professorship at the Trossingen University of Music in April 2021.