London-based American violinist Heidi Kim has concertized extensively as a soloist, chamber musician, interdisciplinary collaborator, and orchestral musician. She made her Carnegie Hall solo debut at the National Band & Orchestra Festival and her international debut at the London New Year’s Day Parade Festival. Other festival appearances include the Chautauqua Institution, Interlochen Center for the Arts, Michigan Youth Arts Festival, Project Trio! The Camp, PhoenixPhest!, Conservatory Music in the Mountains, among others. She has toured with Andrea Bocelli, Kathy Mata Ballet, Ballets with a Twist, and has frequently performed in other notable venues such as the Barbican Centre, Herbst Theatre, Palace of Fine Arts, Fairmont San Francisco, Grace Cathedral, San Francisco City Hall, ODC Theater, Alonzo King LINES Dance Center, SAFE Credit Union Performing Arts Center, Golden 1 Center, Severance Hall, Playhouse Square, and Detroit Orchestra Hall. 

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In the Bay Area, she frequently performed with ensembles One Found Sound, the Sacramento Philharmonic & Opera, Stockton Symphony, Modesto Symphony Orchestra, San Francisco Academy Orchestra, San Francisco Philharmonic, Golden Gate Symphony Orchestra & Chorus, and Classical Revolution. She was previously a musician for Friday Night Live at the Laughing Lotus Yoga Center, and the Memory Care residents of Rhoda Goldman Plaza. She has also held the positions of Musician-in-Residence at Ballet in Cleveland, concertmaster of the Cleveland Women’s Orchestra and the Chagrin Falls Studio Orchestra, as well as core member of the Cleveland Opera Theater Orchestra.

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Recent interesting collaborations include TUMI Luggage's Fall '22 docu-campaign, Built for the Journey, with professional footballer Son Heung-min, a cross-sensual concert experience with the International Culinary Arts and Sciences Institute and conductor Deanna Tham combining taste and sound, and improvisational piece, Detritus, at WStage Seoul with artists Soeine Bac and Bohyung Jun. In May 2023, she will be touring England with John Harle's Bauhaus Band.

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She is the recipient of numerous honours and awards, including the San Francisco Community Music Center Creative Stimulus and Artist Support Grant for Faculty, Robert C.J. Traub Memorial Scholarship for music study in Europe, National School Orchestra Award, and is a National YoungArts Foundation nominee.

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A native of Detroit, Heidi Kim began her violin studies at age 6 and piano at age 8. She completed her undergraduate studies at the Cleveland Institute of Music with Joan Kwuon and holds an Artist Diploma in Orchestral Studies (with Honours) from the San Francisco Academy Orchestra, where she studied with San Francisco Symphony violinist Melissa Kleinbart. Other influential mentors include Peter Salaff, Gabriel Bolkosky, and Patricia Pats Gurin. She is currently pursuing a Master's at the Guildhall School of Music & Drama, under the tutelage of Akiko Ono. 

Kim performs on a 2007 copy of a Guadagnini by contemporary violinmaker Gregg Alf, with a new set-up by Thomas Yee at Bay Fine Strings. Previously she played a ca. 1740 violin of the French Vieux School on generous loan from Bay Fine Strings.

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When not doing music, Heidi is a dancer with Chelsea Ballet. When not doing that, she can usually be found dancing Argentine tango at a milonga somewhere, learning how to juggle, and exploring the UK.