Meet The
Conductor |
The Sioux City Symphony Orchestra's
Associate Conductor and Education Director Jungho
Kim has played a major role in Sioux City's musical
scene in both ends of the primary achievements of
this 90 years-old organization, performing at the
highest level for the current concert goers and exploring
and developing new audiences through various educational
concerts/programs. After coming to Sioux City in 2005,
Jungho Kim has been assigned to every type of concert
imaginable - Family concerts, Pops concerts, Educational
concerts and Classical programs.
Mr. Kim's Classical concert programs included a
full production of Tchaikovsky's Nutcracker, Artunian's
Trumpet Concerto with Phil Smith (principal trumpet,
New York Philharmonic) as soloist, Symphonies and
orchestral works by Tchaikovsky, Beethoven, Brahms,
Wagner, Gershwin, Copland, Stravinsky, among many
others. His contemporary repertoire includes challenging
programs by dazzling composers of our generation
such as Huang Ruo and Raimundo Penaforte. Jungho
Kim has also been conducting the final round of
the Iowa International Piano Competition where dozens
of extremely talented pianists from world over compete
and play concerti by Beethoven and Mozart as a part
of the Orchestra's subscription concert.
On the other hand, Mr. Kim has been actively reaching
out to new audiences to make orchestral music more
available to young students around the area through
various types of concerts. He has worked with the
puppet company Das Puppenspiel on Prokofiev's Peter
and the Wolf to introduce classical music and the
orchestra interestingly and effectively to the younger
generation. More recently, as a part of the Sioux
City Symphony Orchestra's educational program, he
conducted concerts for more than 5,000 public/private
schools' 6th grade students in the area and due
to the success and enthused school teachers' demand,
the orchestra is now producing another school educational
concert for the 4th graders in the area where more
than 2,000 students have attended. The program included
works such as the Carnival of the Animals by Camille
Saint-Saens and the Pulcinella Suite by Stravinsky
for which he created "study-guides" for
the general music teachers in the schools to have
the listeners prepared for a more effective concert
experience. These concerts were in collaboration
with the school's music curriculum and also had
video DVD presentations of students' related art
works during the concerts.
Jungho Kim's musical training began at an early
age on the piano and violin. He received a Master
of Music degree from the College-Conservatory of
Music at the University of Cincinnati in violin
performance and went on to earn another Master's
degree in orchestral conducting at the same school
under the guidance of Maestro Mark Gibson and Xian
Zhang. During his graduate studies at the Conservatory,
a string orchestra Queen City Virtuosi was formed
by the graduate students from world-over for him
to conduct a wide range of classical repertoire
and worked with guest soloists such as Dr. Piotr
Milewski and Dr. Anna Vayman.
He was a selected participant of the Kurt Mazur
Conducting Seminar held by the Manhattan School
of Music in New York, and the Conductor's Retreat
at Medomak under the tutoring of Maestro Kenneth
Kiesler. He also worked with Yu Feng, the head conductor
of the Beijing Conservatory in China.
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