Violinist Bomsori Kim Performs at Weill Recital Hall

as the Recipient of Juilliard's 6th Annual Leo B. Ruiz Memorial Recital

Program Features Works by Messiaen, Fauré, Ravel, Dubugnon, and Saint-Saëns

Free Recital on Tuesday, November 28, 2017, at 7:30pm

NEW YORK ---- Juilliard presents violinist Bomsori Kim at Weill Recital Hall on  Tuesday, November 28, 2017, at 7:30pm  as the recipient of Juilliard's sixth annual Leo B. Ruiz Memorial Recital. Pianist and current Artist Diploma student Drew Petersen joins Ms. Kim in Messiaen's Fantaisie for violin and piano; Fauré's Sonata for violin and piano No. 1 in A Major, Op. 13; Ravel's Sonata for violin and piano No. 2 in G Major; Richard Dubugnon's Retour à Montfort-l'Amaury (2010); and Saint-Saëns' Caprice d'après l'Étude en form de Valse, Op. 52, No. 6. A native of South Korea, Ms. Kim is in the Artist Diploma program at Juilliard, where she studies with Sylvia Rosenberg and Ronald Copes.

Free tickets will be available on the day of the recital beginning at 6:30pm at the Carnegie Hall Box Office, 154 West 57th Street.

The Juilliard School is deeply grateful for the gift from the Estate of Leo B. Ruiz, which is making this recital possible. Leo B. Ruiz was founder and executive director of Artists International Presentations, Inc., a nonprofit organization that promoted talented artists from all over the world from 1972 to 2009, including many musicians from Juilliard. Thanks to his passion for presenting young musicians to the world, and to his generous gift, Juilliard is now able to award a recital at Weill Recital Hall to one gifted young artist each year. This recital program honors the legacy of Mr. Ruiz, a generous individual who had a great impact on the careers of many performing artists.

 About Bomsori Kim

Violinist Bomsori Kim was a winner of the 62nd ARD International Music Competition and was the youngest prizewinner of the Sendai International Music Competition in 2010, which led to her internationally acclaimed concert debut that same year. She has since earned top prizes at major competitions including the Montreal International Musical Competition, International Henryk Wieniawski Violin Competition, Tchaikovsky International Competition, and the Queen Elisabeth Competition. As a soloist, Ms. Kim has appeared at venues including Vienna's Musikverein, Moscow's Tchaikovsky Hall, St. Petersburg's Philharmonic Hall, Zürich's Tonhalle, and the Herkulessaal in Munich. She has performed with orchestras including the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, Montreal Symphony Orchestra, National Orchestra of Belgium, Warsaw National Philharmonic Orchestra, Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, and Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra.

A native of South Korea, she is a graduate of Seoul National University where she studied with Young Uck Kim. Ms. Kim holds a master's degree from Juilliard and is currently pursuing her Artist Diploma at the school as a student of Sylvia Rosenberg and Ronald Copes. In addition to winning Juilliard's 2017 Leo B. Ruiz Award, she appeared as violin soloist earlier this season with the Juilliard Orchestra playing the Brahms Violin Concerto in D Major. Her debut album, a recording of Shostakovich's Violin Concerto No. 1 and Wieniawski's Violin Concerto No. 2 with the Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra, was released worldwide in October by Warner Classics International. With the support of Kumho Asiana Instrument Bank, she plays on a 1774 violin by Joannes Baptista Guadagnini. At Juilliard, Ms. Kim holds the Celia Ascher Artist Diploma Fellowship.

 About Drew Petersen

Pianist Drew Petersen is the winner of the 2017 American Pianists Awards and the Christel DeHaan Fellowship of the American Pianists Association, and, beginning this fall, he was named artist in residence for two years by the University of Indianapolis. He has also won prizes in the Leeds International Piano Competition, Hilton Head International Piano Competition, Kosciuszko Foundation Chopin Competition, and the New York Fryderyk Chopin Piano Competition. He made his debut at Weill Recital Hall at the age of 5, and by age 10, performed a solo recital at Manhattan's Steinway Hall for the company's 150th anniversary. He has been profiled in The New York Times, New York magazine, the documentary Just Normal, and Andrew Solomon's book Far From the Tree. Mr. Petersen graduated cum laude from Harvard University at age 19 with a BA in social science and did his undergraduate and graduate music studies at Juilliard, where he was a recipient of a Kovner Fellowship. He is currently pursuing his Artist Diploma at Juilliard, and he holds the Celia Ascher Artist Diploma Fellowship.

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Program Listing:

Bomsori Kim, violin

Drew Petersen, piano

Tuesday, November 28, 2017, at 7:30pm

Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall

Juilliard's 6th Annual Leo B. Ruiz Memorial Recital

Olivier MESSIAEN Fantaisie for violin and piano

Gabriel FAURÉ Sonata for violin and piano No. 1 in A Major, Op. 13

Maurice RAVEL Sonata for violin and piano No. 2 in G Major

Richard DUBUGNON Retour à Montfort-l'Amaury (2010)

Camille SAINT-SAËNS Caprice d'après l'Étude en forme de Valse, Op. 52, No. 6

Free tickets will be available on the day of the recital beginning at 6:30pm at the Carnegie Hall Box Office, 154 West 57th Street.