Roman Kim

* 11 October 1991 in the Kazakh SSR; Kazakh-German violinist and composer; studied at the Moscow Conservatory and at the Hochschule für Musik Köln with Viktor Tretiakov; from 2000 to 2008 he attended the Central Music School in Moscow with Galina Turchaninova, masterclasses with Maxim Vengerov, Midori Goto, Lewis Kaplan, Miriam Fried and Gidon Kremer. In 2011 he won the Internationaler Musikwettbewerb Köln, in 2012 first prize at Valsesia Musica in Italy and in 2016 the Ivry Gitlis Prize at the Festival Le Printemps du Violon in Paris. He writes his own works and transcriptions for violin, among them a “Requiem for Solo Violin”, “Three Romances” (2012–2014), “I Brindisi” (2013) and a violin concerto that was premiered in Cluj-Napoca in 2017.