Ji Young Lim

Violinist Ji Young Lim has quickly risen to international acclaim as the winner of the Queen Elisabeth Competition in 2015. In the previous year, she won the bronze medal in the International Violin Competition of Indianapolis as well as the Mozart Sonata Special Prize (2014).

In the 2020-2021 season, Ji Young performed the complete Bach and Ysaÿe Solo Violin Sonatas over two days amidst the pandemic. In 2021, she will perform Bruch’s Scottish Fantasy with Seoul Philharmonic and engage in a Korea national tour with Kronberg Friends Quartet, continuously challenging and expanding her musical horizons. 

Her orchestral highlights include Orchestra Philharmonique Royal de Liege, Brussels Philharmonic, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Munich Chamber Orchestra, NHK Symphony Orchestra, and Symphonic Orchestra of the Mariinsky Theatre. She has performed at the Copenhagen Summer Festival, Gstaad Menuhin Festival, Great Mountains Music Festival among others.

Ji Young Lim has performed on the stage of a concert hosted by the King of Belgium during his visit to Korea in March, and she played as an artist representing the Republic of Korea at the first anniversary of the Panmunjeom Declaration in April.

As a Korean native, Ji Young studied at Korea National Institute for the Gifted in Arts and received a bachelor’s degree at the Korea National University of Art under the tutelage of Nam-Yun Kim. She earned her master’s degree at the Kronberg Academy in Germany and is currently continuing her studies at Hochschule für Musik und Tanz Köln is as a doctorate student. With the support of the Nippon Music Foundation, she currently plays on a Stradivarius 1717 Violin “Sasserno.

“an impressive arsenal of strengths – a range of colors that extended from a brilliant shimmer on top to an almost viola-like richness and graininess on the bottom, the ability to race from one end of the finger-board to the other with agility and precision, a dramatic flair and an inclination…”

- Joan Reinthaler, The Washington Post