Kim mendelssohn biography

Roman Kim received his first violin lessons at the age of five and at the age of seven he won first prizes in national competitions, which led him to the Central Music School in Moscow in With a scholarship of the Mstislav Rostropovich Foundation ( - ) he become lessons by Maxim Vengerov since and attended master classes with Midori Goto, Lewis Kaplan, Miriam Fried and Gidon Kremer, while continuing to play concerts in major halls of Russia, Western Europe and South Korea.

In , at the age of 16 years, Roman Kim was admitted at the Musikhoch- schule Köln (Cologne College of Music), where he is currently studying with Prof.

Viktor Tretyakov. In he won the First Prize of the 28th International Music Competition "VALSESIA MUSICA". As a winner of the Cologne Interna- tional Music Competition (), he played with the WDR Radio Orchestra Cologne. In halls such as the Philharmonie in Cologne, the Tonhalle in Düsseldorf and the Hamburg Laeiszhalle he played with the Junge