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Violinist Ga-Eun Kim, a native of South Korea, is the winner of the Nafzger Young Artists Audition, the University of Kansas Concerto Competition, the University of Illinois Symphony Orchestra Concerto Competition, a scholarship recipient from the Kansas Music Club and Sigma Alpha Iota, and was selected as runner-up for the Krannert Center Debut Artist Series among others. She made her professional debut performing Sibelius violin concerto with Sinfonia da Camera for their 38th Season Premier Concert and performed Tchaikovsky’s violin concerto with the KU Symphony Orchestra at the Lied Center. She was invited to perform at the 70th Anniversary for Liberation Korea concert, supported by the Korean Cultural Foundation in Tampa, Florida. She also participated in masterclasses with renowned violinists such as Rachel Burton Pine, Jacques Israelievitch, Benny Kim, Gil Shaham, and Ilya Kaler. She has appeared at several music festivals in the United States and Asia, including the Great Mountain Music Festival, the Summit Music Festival, and the Aspen Music Festival as twice a full-scholarship recipient as well as serving as concertmaster in the Chautauqua Music Festival Orchestra. She has been a regular member of the Civic Orchestra of Chicago, playing under conductors including Riccardo Muti, Semyon Bychkov, and Sir Andrew Davis at the Chicago Symphony Center. In addition, she has been performing in the Champaign-Urbana Symphony, the Millikin-Decatur Symphony Orchestra, the Sinfonia da Camera, and the Illinois Symphony Orchestra. As an active chamber musician, she was a member of the Crimson String Quartet; the quartet’s community outreach included performing for underrepresented audiences, teaching in local schools, and being broadcast on NPR. Her passion for new music and historical instrument performance has led her to regularly perform and lead in the Illinois Modern Ensemble and the University of Illinois’ period instrumental ensemble, Concerto Urbano, at the Krannert Arts Center and the Smith Memorial Hall. Ga-Eun studied as a full scholarship recipient at the University of Kansas and Northwestern University, where she received her Bachelor's and Master’s degrees. She graduated from Yewon School and Seoul Arts High School in South Korea. She is a candidate for a Doctor of Musical Arts in Violin Performance at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where she worked as a Violin Teaching Assistant. She currently serves as the Adjunct Violin Professor at Millikin University and the concertmaster at the Millikin-Decatur Symphony Orchestra