Kim Young-wook_Violinist

Violinist Kim Young-wook, who is evaluated as "a perfect talent with great talent (the December 2011 issue of the monthly auditorium)," studied at Seoul National University of Arts in 2005 and learned Lee Seong-ju as a gifted student who entered the Korea National University of Arts in 2006. After graduating from the Korea National University of Arts, he graduated from the National University of Music in Munich, Germany to become a soloist. He won the first prize and the grand prize in a competition hosted by the Korea Music Association, the Korea Music Newspaper, and the Korea Music Education Association in 1999. He won the first prize in the Kookmin Ilbo, the first prize in the Grand Generation Music Competition, the first prize in the Strad String Music Competition in 2004, the third prize in the Junior Section of the Carnegie Endowment International Violin Competition in Italy, and the first prize in the Dong-A Music Competition in 2008. He also won the title in the violin category of the Belgrade Juunes International Competition in 2011, and the third prize in the Yoon Isang International Music Competition in 2011 and the Leopold Mozart International Competition in 2013.

In addition, as a violinist of Novus Quartet, he won third place in the Osaka International Chamber Music Competition and third place in the Lyon International Chamber Music Competition. In addition to winning third place at the 2012 Austrian International Haydn Chamber Music Competition, he won the 1st Artsilvia Chamber Music Audition Grand Prize, and became the first Korean to win the second place in the string quartet category at the ARD International Competition, which boasts the world's highest authority in the field of chamber music, in September 2012. In February 2014, he won the 11th International Mozart Competition for the first time in the history of chamber music, and is considered to have made a new history of chamber music in Korea. All of Kim Young-wook's chamber music awards are the first and youngest in Korea in the award category.

Novus Quartet won the 9th Daewon Music Award for Best New Artist in 2015, and once again established itself in our music industry. In 2015, the recital "Death and Girl" at the Concert Hall of the Seoul Arts Center, which was unusual for an indoor music team, won the Best Chamber Music Award at the 2nd Seoul Arts Center. In 2018, they won the 11th Performing Arts Awards 'Performance Artist of the Year', solidifying their position, and in 2020, they won the 3rd Byeoksan Music Awards at the 10th Byeoksan Culture Awards ceremony.

Kim Young-wook performed at the Leipzig Euromusic Festival and Kumho Young Artist Recital, and performed with renowned domestic and international symphonies such as the Munich Radio Orchestra, the Hungarian Chamber Philharmonic, the Zaporizhzhia Philharmonic, the Ukrainian Zaporizhzhia Philharmonic, the Berlin Cammer Philharmonic, the KBS Symphony, the Korean Symphony, the Suwon Philharmonic, the Busan Philharmonic, and the Seongnam Philharmonic Hall in October 2019 as a concerto on the Bucheon Philharmonic Orchestra's European tour. In 2021, he performed at the Seoul Arts Center Symphony Festival (Gangnam Symphony), and in 2022, he performed the complete solo violin sonatas of pianist Son Jeong-beom and Beethoven three times (January, April, and August).

As a soloist and violinist of Novus Quartet, he has been invited to play at world-class halls such as Berlin Philharmonie, Pierre Boulez Hall, Cologne Philharmonie, Munich Heracules Hall, U.K. Wigmore Hall, Vienna Mujikferin, and Concerthouse, and has been active on stage all over the world. In particular, in the 2022/2023 season, Novus Quartet was selected as the resident musician of Wigmore Hall, a renowned hall in London, England, and has the record of being the most invited Korean musician to Wigmore Hall. Following a total of six international albums as a member of Novus Quartet, Shostakovich's album was released under the Apertet label in January 2022.
Kim Young-wook has been appointed as a professor at the Korea National University of Arts since 2022 and is also working hard to cultivate his younger students.