London and Guildford-based violinist Heidi Kim has concertised extensively across North America, Europe, and Asia. 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. Other festival appearances include the Bauhaus Festival, Chautauqua Institution, Interlochen Center for the Arts, Michigan Youth Arts Festival, among others. She has toured with Marc Almond, John Harle OBE and The Bauhaus Band, Andrea Bocelli, Ballet Del’Art, Kathy Mata Ballet, Ballets with a Twist, and has frequently performed in other notable venues such as the Barbican Centre, Milton Court, Sheldonian Theatre, GLive Guildford, Gulbenkian Arts Centre, Herbst Theatre, Palace of Fine Arts, Fairmont San Francisco, Grace Cathedral, Severance Hall, Playhouse Square, and Detroit Orchestra Hall. 

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Since arriving in the U.K., she has held all leadership positions in the Guildhall Symphony and Opera Orchestras, and has performed with the London Symphony Orchestra, as well as with former and current members of most of the major British orchestras. 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 projects include being featured in the world premieres of Kevin Rodgers’ electro-acoustic suite, Four Horsemen, Stephen McNeff’s critically acclaimed opera, A Star Next to the Moon, TUMI's Fall 2022 docu-campaign, Built for the Journey, with Tottenham Hotspur FC forward 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 performance artists Soeine Bac and Bohyung Jun. 

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Ms. Kim is the recipient of numerous honours and awards, including the San Francisco Community Music Center Creative Stimulus and Artist Support Grant for Faculty, merit scholarships from The Rehearsal Orchestra, Guildhall School, San Francisco Academy Orchestra, and Cleveland Institute of Music, Robert C.J. Traub Memorial Scholarship for music study in Europe, National School Orchestra Award, and is a National YoungArts Foundation nominee.

The Detroit-born artist began her musical studies on the violin at age 6 and piano at age 8. She holds degrees from the Guildhall School of Music & Drama, San Francisco Academy Orchestra, and Cleveland Institute of Music. Her most influential mentors include Akiko Ono, David Dolan, Melissa Kleinbart, Gabriel Bolkosky, Peter Salaff, and Patricia Pats Gurin.

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.

Outside of music, Heidi enjoys being a ballet dancer, shooting arrows, cooking, and floristry.