Byeol Kim

Biography

Violinist Byeol Kim, named the most recent recipient of the Dorothy DeLay Fellowship, will make a return to the Aspen Music Festival as a soloist in the summer of 2027.

She is the grand prize winner of the 2024 Hong Kong International Competition and has been an award winner at the 2026 Ann & Charles Eisemann and 2022 New England Conservatory Concerto Competitions, as well as a participant in the 2016 edition of the Menuhin Competition in London. Masterclass opportunities have taken her from Aspen to Kronberg, where she has had the chance to perform for Mihaela Martin, Gil Shaham, Rainer Honeck, and Kolja Blacher.

Byeol is set to join the first violin section of the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra in the fall of 2026. She has previously served in leadership positions in the Aspen Chamber and Symphony Orchestras, Rice University's Shepherd School Symphony Orchestra, the New England Conservatory Philharmonic, and was a substitute member of the Houston Symphony.

She holds degrees from Rice University and the New England Conservatory of Music, where her primary teachers were Kathleen Winkler and Ayano Ninomiya.