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Ji Sun Kim started her professional career in recorder music after winning the Recorder Contest Tokyo, when Prof. Helmut Schaller invited her to study recorder performance at the University for Music and Performing Arts in Vienna, Austria.

In June 2006 she graduated with a master‘s degree with honors and has started with her Ph. D. in Fall the same year.

In 2008, she graduated from McGill University, Montreal, where she had been studying with Matthias Maute, with an Artist Diploma and received the Scholarship of the Austrian Society Montreal.

She has attended master classes by recorder players such as Matthias Maute, Michael Schneider, Dan Laurin, Reine-Marie Verhagen, Peter van Heyghen, Ernst Kubitschek and Ashley Solomon.
She has also participated in master classes for Wolfgang Gluexam, Gordon Murray/harpsichord and Liciano Contini/lute.

Ji Sun Kim has been awarded several scholarships from the University for performing Arts in Vienna, Austria. Besides regular concerts she has played at concerts with Dan Laurin, Johannes Bogner, Johannes Kretz and Maurice Bourge. In Fall 2007 she played with Han Tol and was a finalist at the International Recorder Competition Montreal.

Ji Sun Kim has performed as a soloist on numerous occasions, for example at the International Summer Academy in Bratislava and Prague (BHS), the Stephansdom and the Ruprechtskirche in Vienna, where she performed with the recorder and live electronics collaboration project “Ensemble Abacus“. Ensemble Abacus also had a performance in Montreal in 2008 that was supported by the Austrian and Korean Embassy and broadcast on 90.3 FM in Montreal.

Ji Sun Kim is now teaching recorder performance at the Vienna Conservatory Austria.


Education

2000 – 2006
Studies of recorder performance at the University for music and performing art, Vienna
(with Prof. Helmut Schaller). Diploma (honours).
Studies of Instrumental and Voice Pedagogy, with emphasis on Music and Dance Education (Orff-Schulwerk) at the University for music and performing art, Vienna.
(2006: M. A. art.) Diploma (honours).

2006 – 2008
McGill University McGill's Schulich School of Music Artist Diploma (with Matthias Maute).

2006 –
PhD-Studium (Doctor of Philosophy) at the University for music and performing art, Vienna.


Professional Activities

2004
Teacher at Musikschule Leopoldsdorf (Recorder, Music and Dance Education (Orff-Schulwerk))

Seit 2004
Artistic Director of the Baroque Music–Ensemble (Co-Founder of Recordum)

2005
Teacher at Volkshochschule Florisdorf, Vienna

2006
Visiting lecturer at Bratislava Conservatory „Artist Diploma for Recorder, post-graduate „studies for Recorder“ at the master course for Recorder of the International Summer Academy, Bratislava.
Workshop for Recorder and French ornament in Seoul, South-Korea.

2007
Teaching at the Vienna Conservatory

2008
Guest Lecture in Bruce Haynes' Performance Practice Seminar (Graduate Seminar) at McGill University

Guest Lecture for Orff Canada

Guest Lecture at L'Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM)


Awards
Achievement Award
Scholarship der Ordentlichen Stipedien
Scholarship of the Philadelphia Amherst Early Music Festival in U.S.A.
Austrian Society Scholarship, McGill University in Canada


Competitions

Seoul National Competition for Recorder 1. prize
Recorder contest Tokyo, Japan 3. prize
International Competition for Recorder Solist Novezamky Slovakei 1. prize
Finalist at the Montreal International Recorder Competition 2007


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