Yeonah Kim
A talented young violinist from South Korea charmed the jury and has become the youngest finalist of this year’s competition.
Yeonah Kim was born in Seoul, South Korea in 2014. She started playing the violin when she was four and has studied at the Seoul Central Conservatory under Sunny Lee since she was five. Yeonah first performed as a soloist with a chamber orchestra at the age of six and since then she has received the highest awards at multiple national competitions. In 2022, she was selected at the age of eight as the youngest ever participant in the Kumho Prodigy try-outs. One year later, she received the second prize at the Arthur Grumiaux International Violin Competition in Belgium and second place and the audience prize at the Piccolo Violino Magico Competition in Italy. In September 2023, she became the youngest ever participant to receive the first prize, the audience prize and the young jury prize at the International Mozart Competition in Zhuhai, China. In April 2024, she debuted at the Kumho Prodigy con cert. She has performed with the Prime Philharmonic Orchestra since March 2025 and she will soon perform with the Seoul Philharmonic.
