Kyu-Young Kim, violin

​Kyu-Young Kim (violin) is artistic director and principal violin of The Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra, is one of the most versatile and accomplished musicians of his generation. His appointment as the SPCO’s Artistic Director in January 2016 marks the first time a playing member has been tapped to take the artistic helm of a major American orchestra. Since assuming his dual role in 2013, the SPCO has toured throughout the U.S. and to Europe to great critical acclaim and won a Grammy Award in 2018 for its disc of Schubert's Death and the Maiden.

Hyobi Sim, viola

Hyobi Sim (viola) is the associate principal violist of The Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra. A prizewinner at the Tertis International Viola Competition, the Music Chunchu Competition and the Seoul Arts Center Competition, Sim has made solo appearances with the SPCO as well as with many other orchestras such as the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra, Gyungki Philharmonic Orchestra, Gyungchal Symphony Orchestra, and Curtis Chamber Orchestra. As an active chamber musician, Sim has performed with Steven Tenenbom, Ida Kavafian, Peter Wiley, Steven Isserlis, Jeremy Denk, Michael Kannen, Daniel Phillips, Pamela Frank, Roger Tapping and others.

Joshua Bell, director and violin

With a career spanning more than 30 years as a soloist, chamber musician, recording artist and conductor, Joshua Bell is one of the most celebrated violinists of his era. An exclusive Sony Classical artist, he has recorded more than 40 CDs garnering Grammy, Mercury, Gramophone and Echo Klassik awards, and is a recipient of the Avery Fisher Prize, as well as the Lumiere Prize for his work in the sphere of Virtual Reality.  Named the Music Director of the Academy of St Martin in the Fields in 2011, he is the only person to hold this post since Sir Neville Marriner formed the orchestra in 1958, and recently renewed his contract through 2020. In 2016, Sony released Bell’s album For the Love of Brahms with the Academy of St Martin in the Fields, cellist Steven Isserlis and pianist Jeremy Denk, followed in 2017 by the Joshua Bell Classical Collection, a 14 CD set of Bell’s Sony recording highlights from the past 20 years.  

Summer 2017 saw Joshua Bell perform at the BBC Proms with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, at the Verbier Festival, as Artist In Residence at the Edinburgh International Festival and – in the US - at Tanglewood, Ravinia, and the Mostly Mozart Festival.   In the 2017/18 season in the US, Bell takes part in the New York Philharmonic’s celebration of Leonard Bernstein’s centennial, performing Bernstein’s Serenade led by Alan Gilbert, and also appears with the Philadelphia Orchestra and Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra among others. His North American recital tours take him to Carnegie Hall, Chicago’s Symphony Center and Washington D.C.’s Strathmore Center. Highlights in Europe include appearances as soloist with the Vienna Symphony and Danish National Symphony; as director and soloist with the Orchestre National de Lyon; and recitals in Paris, Zurich, Geneva, Bologna, Milan and London. With the Academy of St Martin in the Fields he will tour widely including in the United Kingdom, United States and Europe, featuring performances in London, New York, San Francisco, Reykjavik and at the Elbphilharmonie in Hamburg. 

Convinced of the value of music as a diplomatic and educational tool, Bell participated in President Obama’s Committee on the Arts and Humanities’ first cultural mission to Cuba.  He is also involved in Turnaround Arts, another project implemented by the Committee and the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts which provides arts education to low-performing elementary and middle schools. 

Joshua Bell performs on the 1713 Huberman Stradivarius violin and uses a late 18th century French bow by François Tourte. 

Photo: Lisa-Marie Mazzucco

Zlatomir Fung, cello

The first American in four decades and youngest musician ever to win First Prize at the
International Tchaikovsky Competition Cello Division, Zlatomir Fung is poised to become one of
the preeminent cellists of our time. Astounding audiences with his boundless virtuosity and
exquisite sensitivity, the 22-year-old has already proven himself to be a star among the next
generation of world-class musicians. A 2020 recipient of an Avery Fisher Career Grant, Fung's
impeccable technique demonstrates a mastery of the canon and an exceptional insight into the
depths of contemporary repertoire.

In the 2021-2022 season, Fung performs with orchestras and gives recitals in all corners of
the world. Summer debuts include La Jolla Chamber Music Society in recital with Richard Fu,
multiple programs at ChamberFest Cleveland, Bravo! Vail in a chamber music program with
Joshua Bell and Shai Wosner, Aspen Music Festival in a performance of Tchaikovsky’s Variations
on a Rococo Theme with the Aspen Festival Orchestra, and Rockport Chamber Music festival in
a recital with Dina Vainshtein. In the fall, he opens Ann Arbor Symphony’s season and appears
twice with Iris Orchestra. He is presented by Harvard Musical Association, Philadelphia Chamber
Music Society, Philharmonic Society of Orange County, and Thomasville Entertainment
Foundation before making his Carnegie Hall Weill Recital Debut with pianist Mishka Rushdie
Momen in a program of Romantic-era classics. He returns to Philadelphia Chamber Music Society
in January for two evenings with BalletX and the Calidore Quartet to give the Philadelphia
premiere of a new work by Anna Clyne and appears with several orchestras including the Detroit,
Kansas City and Greensboro Symphonies. He tours Italy, Russia, China, and Japan with orchestras
and in recital.

In the 2020-2021 season, Fung made his Seattle Symphony debut in the orchestra’s 13th
annual Celebrate Asia concert in addition to livestreams presented by University of Delaware, The
Phillips Collection & Music Wooster, and Friends of Chamber Music, and many online
masterclasses. In the 2019-2020 season, he returned to the Ann Arbor Symphony Orchestra and
debuted with Asheville and Aiken Symphony Orchestras. He performed at Carnegie Hall’s Zankel
Hall in a joint recital with fellow Tchaikovsky Competition winners in October, following a recital
at Friends of Music in Sleepy Hollow, NY. Other recitals include Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
in New York, Wengler Center for the Arts at Pepperdine University in Malibu, Syrinx Concerts in
Toronto, The Embassy Series in Washington DC, Salon de Virtuosi and Bulgarian Concert
Evenings in New York City, Chamber on the Mountain in Ojai, and Evergreen Museum & Library
in Baltimore. At the Artist Series of Sarasota, Fung performed the complete works for cello and
piano by Beethoven. As a chamber musician, Fung performed around the world, opening the
season with IMS Prussia Cove on tour to London’s Wigmore Hall, Cornwall, Cambridge, West
Sussex, and Somerset. New York City chamber music engagements included the Aspect
Foundation. During the summer of 2019, Fung performed at Musique de Chambre à Giverny, a
chamber music festival in northern France.

A winner of the 2017 Young Concert Artists International Auditions and the 2017 Astral
National Auditions, Fung has taken the top prizes at the 2018 Alice & Eleonore Schoenfeld
International String Competition, 2016 George Enescu International Cello Competition, 2015
Johansen International Competition for Young String Players, 2014 Stulberg International String
Competition, and 2014 Irving Klein International Competition. He was selected as a 2016 U.S.
Presidential Scholar for the Arts and was awarded the 2016 Landgrave von Hesse Prize at the
Kronberg Academy Cello Masterclasses.

Of Bulgarian-Chinese heritage, Zlatomir Fung began playing cello at age three and earned
fellowships at Ravinia's Steans Music Institute, Heifetz International Music Institute, MusicAlp,
and the Aspen Music Festival and School. Fung studied at The Juilliard School under the tutelage
of Richard Aaron and Timothy Eddy. Fung has been featured on NPR’s Performance Today and
has appeared on From the Top six times. In addition to music, he enjoys cinema, reading, and blitz
chess.

Shai Wosner, piano

Shai Wosner (piano) has appeared with the major orchestras of Atlanta, Baltimore, Chicago, Cleveland, Dallas, Los Angeles, Milwaukee, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Ottawa, San Francisco, and Toronto. He has also appeared led the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra from the keyboard, and soloed with the BBC orchestras, Bournemouth Symphony, Frankfurt Radio Symphony, Gothenburg Symphony, Staatskapelle Berlin, and Vienna Philharmonic. He has recorded Beethoven’s complete sonatas and variations for cello and piano with Ralph Kirshbaum, and works by Bartók, Janáček, and Kurtág with longtime duo partner Jennifer Koh. He recently completed his recordings of Schubert’s last six sonatas.