Vibrating with finesse and fire: Highly talented young musicians captivate the audience at the Young Masters final in Corvey.
Far removed from all conventionality, the Kim Trio discovered its enchanting eloquence and the full richness of its concertante splendor. The interpretation of the D minor Trio, Op. 49, vibrating with finesse and fire, gained brilliance and tension from the excitingly conveyed inner logic. With unsurpassable vitality, sustaining the intensity of every phrase, the three Korean-born musicians played out their brilliance without reservation.
— Christine Longère
Neue Westfälische, No. 147
Wunderbare musikalische Dialoge der drei Kim-Schwestern
Ostenfelde (gl). Es hat seinen eigenen Charme, wenn Geschwister einträchtig musizieren. Auf diese Karte setzte schon Vater Mozart. Das internationale SØR-Meisterkonzert setzte am Sonntag im Rittersaal des Schlosses Vornholz noch einen drauf, ......
.... Stürmischer Beifall belohnte das Trio für eine exzellente Leistung. Gerne ließ es den Abend etwas ruhiger ausklingen, gewissermaßen mit einem "Lied ohne Worte"....
— Dr. Ekkehard Gühne
Tageszeitung "Die Glocke"
The Kim sisters played with seamless unity
The Bad Segeberg Concert Society enjoyed a successful start to the new season…
From the opening, they enchanted the audience with the cheerful melodies of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s Trio No. 7 in G major. The lively themes flowed seamlessly and were especially refreshing in the somewhat stuffy air of the Town Hall’s Bürgersaal.
Breathing—or even thinking of breathing—was out of the question during Dmitri Shostakovich’s Trio No. 2 in E minor. Breathtaking in both drama and musical expression, the musicians completely captivated their audience.
— Peter J. Strehmel
Segeberger Zeitung
Played Passages of Otherworldly Sonority
Standing Ovations at the “pro-nota” Concert with a Korean Sister Trio at Frenswegen Monastery
The program included modern music by the Korean-born composer Isang Yun (1917–1995). The glissandi of the two string instruments, combined with the partly harp-like sounds produced by the pianist striking and plucking the strings inside the concert grand, created an almost otherworldly sonic experience.
In the second half, a trio by Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy followed. Here, even more than in the opening work by Mozart, the violinist’s distinctive tone truly shone: a beautiful, intense sound—not as bright as a typical violin tone, but softer, more covered, and therefore richer and more resonant.
With a lively tempo and clearly shaped musical lines, the three musicians gave Mendelssohn’s work a strong sense of forward motion and flow. In the third movement, which accelerated once again, the trio seemed—figuratively—to take flight. Extremely rapid passages were played with great lightness and never overly loud, creating an almost airborne quality.
The audience responded enthusiastically, with cries of “bravo” and a standing ovation.
Grafschafter Nachrichten
Skillfully overlaying naïveté with a touch of wit: The Kim sisters enchanted the audience at the 251st Castle Concert.
Sibling harmony—multiplied by instrumental mastery at all three positions—could well describe the unusual radiance of the 251st chamber concert at Bad Iburg Castle. Whether performing Mendelssohn or Shostakovich, the musicians from Korea—Nayoung Kim (piano), Taehyun Kim (violin), and Jiyeon Kim (cello)—knew how to enchant their audience. …
… The joy of playing and interpreting finally broke through without restraint. The opening movement already reached Appassionata-like temperatures that normally would be expected only in the finale, yet these were indeed surpassed once more at the end. The preceding chase of A Midsummer Night’s Dream had already set the pulse racing—and kept it there. The audience’s as well.
— Margret Lejeune, Bad Iburg
Neue Osnabrücker Zeitung
Inspired Ensemble Playing
Concert by the Kim Trio to open the “Music at the Town Hall” serie
Inspired Ensemble Playing
Concert by the Kim Trio opening the “Music at the Town Hall” series.
…The musicians opened Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s trio with confident assurance, beginning with an Allegro that seemed almost to anticipate the dialogue between piano and strings that unfolds in the Andante cantabile. In this movement, violin and piano engaged in an intense musical exchange, while the calm sound of the cello assumed something of a mediating role. The Kim Trio also gave the concluding Allegro strong and distinctive contours.
In contrast to Mozart’s classical sound world, the music of Max Reger provided a powerful shift in character. From deep wells of expression, the Allegro moderato, ma con passione seemed to surge to the surface, before yielding to the almost light-footed character of the Allegretto. It came across almost like a sigh of release.
With this particularly pointed interpretation of Reger’s work—whose music formed part of the required repertoire in the competition—the Kim Trio demonstrated how the imaginative interplay of piano, violin, and cello can even achieve orchestral effects.
Badische Neueste Nachrichten
2013
April 27, 2013, UFMG Conservatory, Belo Horizonte, Brazil
April 29, 2013, Belem, Brazil
August 18, 2013 Sejong M Theater, Seoul, Korea
2012
March 17, 2012, Vienna, Gesellschaft für Musiktheater
April 14, 2012, Bochum, Germany
April 15, 2012, Bad Herzberg, Germany
August 4, 2012, Seoul Arts Center, Korea
2011
July 22, 2011, Catania, Italy, Trescagni Festival : Beethoven, Mendelssohn,
Shostakovich
July 24, 2011, Catania, Italy, Trescagni Festival : Haydn, Schumann
August 24, 2011, Gwangju, Korea : Haydn, Mendelssohn, Shostakovich
August 26, 2011, Myeongdong Cathedral Seoul, Korea : Haydn, Beethoven,
Mendelssohn, Shostakovich
September 1, 2011 Seoul, Korea
2010
February 9, 2010 Hamburg, Germany: Haydn, Mendelssohn
February 11, 2010 Hambrug, Germany: Haydn, Schumann
May 12, 2010 Vienna, Austria
June 4, 2010 Hamburg, Germany: Brahms, Flender
October 6, 2010 Vienna, Austria
2009
February 4, 2009 Hamburg, Germany: Haydn, Mendelssohn
April 26, 2009 Barlach Haus, Hamburg, Germany: Haydn, Schumann, Mendelssohn
June 18, 2009 Kulturzentrum Salzau, Germany: Mendelssohn
August 8, 2009 Seoul, Korea: Haydn, Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, Schostakowitsch
October 25, 2009 Herzberg, Germany
November, 2009 Brazil Tournee-Belem, Belo Horizonte: Haydn, Mendelssohn
November 11, 2009 Hamburg, Germany: I. Mitialis, Mendelssohn
November 14, 2009 Hamburg, Germany: Haydn, Mendelssohn, Schostakowitsch
November 28, 2009 Gesellschaft für Musiktheater, Vienna, Austria: Haydn, Mendelssohn
2008
March 14, 2008 Oslo, Norway: Musikkhøgskolens symfoniorkester/Beethoven Triple Concerto
March 15, 2008 Oslo, Norway: Musikkhøgskolens symfoniorkester/Beethoven Triple Concerto
April 15, 2008 Musikverein, Gläserner Saal, Vienna, Austria: Beethoven, Schumann
May 7, 2008 Rathaus Harburg, Hamburg, Germany: Beethoven, Schumann, Yun
May 25, 2008 Adventkirken, Oslo, Norway: Beethoven, Schumann
May 28, 2008 Bösendorfer Saal, Vienna, Austria: Beethoven, Schumann
September 11, 2008 Holzwickede, Germany: Haydn, Beethoven, Schumann
September 12, 2008 Thürmer Saal, Bochum, Germany: Haydn, Beethoven, Schumann
November 7, 2008 NDR - Junge Künslter, Hochschule für Musik und Theater Hamburg, Germany: Haydn
November 21, 2008 Spikerhus, Hamburg, Germany: Haydn, Mozart, Mendelssohn
November 24, 2008 Gesellschaft für Musiktheater, Vienna, Austria: Haydn, Mozart
2007
January 14, 2007 Mathäuskirche, Berlin, Germany: Beethoven
April 28, 2007 Kloster Frenswegen, Germany: Mozart, Yun, Mendelssohn
April 29, 2007 Oldenzaal, Netherlands: Mozart, Yun, Mendelssohn
May 09, 2007 Freunde Junger Musiker Munich, Germany: Mozart, Brahms, Mendelssohn
May 21, 2007 Vienna, Austria: Mozart, Brahms, Beethoven
May 30, 2007 Gesellschaft für Musiktheater, Vienna, Austria: Mozart, Brahms, Beethoven
June 30, 2007 Bundesverwaltungsgericht, Leipzig, Germany: Haydn, Brahms, Beethoven
July 21, 2007 Nasjonalgalleriet, Grieg Festival Oslo, Norway: Mozart, Grieg, Yun, Mendelssohn
September 07, 2007 Großer Saal, Konzerthaus Berlin, Germany: Schostakowitsch, Mendelssohn
September 28, 2007 Freunde Junger Musiker Kassel, Germany: Beethoven, Yun, Reger
December 14, 2007 Gesellschaft für Musiktheater, Vienna, Austria: Lönner, Yun, Schumann
2006
January 11, 2006 Vienna, Austria: Mozart
January 19, 2006 Soltau, Germany: Mozart, Mendelssohn, Brahms
January 27, 2006 Vienna, Austria: Mozart
February 15, 2006 Vienna, Austria: Mozart, C. Schumann
February 22, 2006 Mendelssohn House, Berlin, Germany:C. Schumann, Mendelssohn
March 08, 2006 Freunde Juger Musiker, Bremen, Germany:Brahms, Yun, Mendelssohn
March 20, 2006 Oslo, Norway: Mendelssohn
March 22, 2006 Oslo, Norway: Mozart
April 26, 2006 Hannover, Germany: Beethoven
April 28 - May 08 2006 Brazil Tournee-Belem, Belo Horizonte, Ouro Branco: Beethoven, Yun, Mendelssohn
May 18, 2006 Vienna, Austria: Mozart, Schubert
June 18, 2006 Freunde Junger Musiker Düsseldorf, Germany:Yun, Brahms, Schostakowitsch
June 19, 2006 Freunde Junger Musiker Cologne, Germany:Yun, Brahms
July 14, 2006 Pianoforte-Fest Meissen, Germany:Mendelssohn, Schubert
July 23, 2006 Nasjonalgalleriet, Grieg Festival Oslo, Norway : Mozart, Grieg, Mendelssohn
July 23, 2006 Tjome, Norway: Grieg, Mendelssohn
July 25, 2006 Tonsberg, Norway: Mozart, Yun, Schubert
August 02, 2006 Castello Bernini, Laize, Italy: Mendelssohn, Schubert
August 03, 2006 Concamarise, Italy: Mendelssohn, Schubert
September 02, 2006 National Theater Seoul, Korea: Mendelssohn
October 13, 2006 HfM Berlin, Germany: Beethoven
November 10, 2006 Cloppenburg, Germany: Beethoven, Yun, Schubert
November 15, 2006 Rathaus Bürger Saal, Karlsruhe, Germany:Mozart, Reger
November 16, 2006 Forschungszentrum, Karlsruhe, Germany:Mozart, Mendelssohn
December 03, 2006 Freunde Junger Musiker Mainz, Germany:Haydn, Brahms, Schostakowitsch
December 06, 2006 Altes Rathaus, Hattingen, Germany:Brahms, Schubert
December 07, 2006 Altes Rathaus, Hattingen, Germany:Brahms, Schubert
December 09, 2006 Ratingen, Germany: Brahms, Schubert
December 11, 2006 Vienna, Austria: Haydn, Mozart
2005
October 01, 2005 Thürmer Saal, Bochum, Germany: Beethoven, Brahms, Mendelssohn
October 03, 2005 Schloss Ettlingen, Germany: Beethoven
October 15, 2005 Kreiskulturraum, Kronach, Germany: Mozart, Mendelssohn, Brahms
October 19, 2005 Oslo, Norway: Brahms
November 06, 2005 Berlin, Germany: Beethoven, Yun, Mendelssohn
November 09, 2005 Oslo, Norway: Mozart. Beethoven