Jin Kim

Music Director & Conductor

Jin Kim is in his fourteenth season as Music Director of the Atlantic Symphony Orchestra. During his tenure, Kim has established the Atlantic Symphony Orchestra as one of the premier professional orchestras in the New England. The music critics including The Boston Globe and the The Patriot Ledger consistently praise the orchestra’s performances as “spectacular, dramatic, expressive, confident and unified”.

Kim is the recipient of the 2003 Robert Shaw Conducting Fellowship, a prestigious annual career development award underwritten by the National Endowment for the Arts, presented  to one outstanding conductor in North America.

Through prestigious fellowship programs, Kim has appeared with the National Symphony (DC), National Arts Center (Ottawa) and Chicago Civic Orchestras. He has also conducted the Eastman Philharmonia, and has been a frequent guest conductor of orchestras at Boston University and Boston Conservatory. Since 2001, he has also been a regular guest conductor of Bucheon Philharmonic, one of the leading professional orchestras in Korea.

Kim has also served as Music Director of the Empire State Youth Orchestras in Albany, New York. During his tenure, he garnered rave reviews from critics for raising the performance standards of the orchestra already considered by many as one of the top youth orchestras in the country. As a teacher, he has also taught orchestral conducting at Boston University and served as a visiting conductor of the Boston University Chamber Orchestra.

Equally versatile in the choral-orchestral genre, Kim was the winner of the 1995 American Choral Directors Association's National Conducting Competition and a founding Music Director of Magnum Chorum in Minnesota.

As a pianist he was a finalist at the Minnesota Orchestra Concerto Competition and an active chamber musician. Also an accomplished professional singer, he has performed at Carnegie Hall and other major international venues as a member of leading professional choruses in the United States including the Robert Shaw Institute Singers, the Dale Warland Singers, and the Oregon Bach Festival Chorus.

Born in Seoul, South Korea, Kim immigrated to the United States at age eleven. He is a graduate of St. Olaf College and the Eastman School of Music where he studied piano with Rebecca Penneys and conducting with David Effron. Kim is also one of the only two conductors ever admitted into the Artist Diploma program at Boston University. He has worked extensively with Jorma Panula and participated in Master Classes with Otto-Werner Mueller, Leonard Slatkin and Pinchas Zukerman.