UK Orchestra to Perform with Acclaimed Concertmaster, Violinist David Kim
David Kim performs with the El Camino Youth Symphony.
LEXINGTON, Ky. (March 24, 2016) — The Philadelphia Orchestra Concertmaster and violinist David Kim will perform with the University of Kentucky Symphony Orchestra, under the direction of John Nardolillo, 7:30 p.m. Friday, March 25, in the Singletary Center for the Arts. The concert is free and open to the public.
The concert will feature a performance with Kim of Violin Concerto in D Major (Op. 77) by Johannes Brahms. The orchestra will also perform Edward Elgar's "Enigma Variations." Leading up to the concert, Kim will also present a master class, which is free and open to the public, 7:30 p.m. tonight (Thursday), March 24, at the Singletary Center Concert Hall.
David Kim is an accomplished violinist who has served as the concertmaster of the Philadelphia Orchestra since 1999. He began playing the violin at age three, started studying with Dorothy DeLay at age eight, and went on to obtain his bachelor's and master’s degrees from the Juilliard School. Kim appears as a soloist each season with the Philadelphia Orchestra and numerous orchestras around the world. He also appears internationally at such festivals as Grand Teton, Brevard, MasterWorks (U.S.) and Pacific (Japan).
Since Nardolillo took the conductor's podium of the UK Symphony Orchestra, it has enjoyed great success accumulating recording credits and sharing the stage with such acclaimed international artists as Itzhak Perlman, Lynn Harrell and Mark O'Connor, as well as the Boston Pops. In addition to its own concerts, UK Symphony Orchestra provides accompaniment for much of the UK Opera Theatre season. UK's orchestra is one of a very select group of university orchestras under contract with Naxos, the world's largest classical recording label.
The UK Symphony Orchestra is housed at the UK School of Music at UK College of Fine Arts. The school has garnered a national reputation for high-caliber education in opera, choral and instrumental music performance, as well as music education, composition, and theory and music history.
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