Wonkak Kim, MTNA Young Artist Woodwinds winner:

Hailed by critics around the world as "excellent..." (The Washington Post) and whose playing was described as a “tour de force" (Classical Voice of North Carolina), clarinetist Wonkak Kim has dazzled his audience with his "virtuosic and stirring" (Journal de Morges, Switzerland)  playing. A Korean native, Kim began studying clarinet with Kenneth Lee at the age of fifteen. He has since concertized throughout the US, South Korea and Europe and was the featured soloist with nearly a dozen orchestras, including recent performances with the Washington Metropolitan Philharmonic and the Central Florida Symphony. As an award-winning young artist, Kim  has appeared in Carnegie Hall, the Kennedy Center and Constitution Hall. An avid chamber musician, Kim is a co-founder of enhake (www.enhake.com), a 2008 winner of the International Chamber Music Ensemble Competition (Boston, MA) and the Plowman Chamber Music Competition (Columbia, MO), which recently made an acclaimed debut at Weill Recital Hall (NYC). Kim received degrees in Mathematics (BA) and Music (BM) from The University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill and is currently pursuing a Master of Music in Clarinet Performance at Florida State University. His major teachers have been Donald Oehler and Frank Kowalsky.