Nice career leap

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Subin Kim from the HfMT Master's program in Conducting under Prof. Ulrich Windfuhr has won the assistant position at the "L Orchestre national de L Ile de France"!

Vita
The South Korean Subin Kim received piano and violin lessons as a child before she began her professional music education with music theory (harmony/composition) at the age of 19. In 2012, she began studying choral conducting and composition at the Korea University of the Arts with Prof. Hong-su Kim and Sung-gi Kim. In the winter semester of 2017, she moved to the Hanns Eisler School of Music in Berlin, where she studied with Prof. Christian Ehwald, Prof. Alexander Vitlin and Mihail Gerts. Since 2021, she has also been studying for a master's degree in conducting at the HfMT Hamburg with Prof. Ulrich Windfuhr. In the 2023/24 season, she will be Assistant Conductor at the Aarhus Symfoniorkester.
She received further impulses from the Critical Orchestra, the Peter Eötvös Contemporary Music Masterclass, the Paavo Järvi Academy in Zurich and a masterclass with Sir Donald Runnicles, among others. In 2018 she was a semi-finalist at the Bucharest International Conducting Competition and in 2021 at the KNSO International Conducting Competition in South Korea. In recent years, she has conducted orchestras such as the Tonhalle Orchestra Zurich, MDR Symphony Orchestra, Brandenburg State Orchestra Frankfurt/Oder, Mageburg Philharmonic Orchestra, Czech Karlovy Vary Orchestra, Poland Filharmonia Zielonogórska and the Cottbus State Theatre.
In addition to the symphonic repertoire, she has developed an interest in opera in recent years. In 2019, she assisted Robin Ticciati in the concert opera production The Rape of Lucretia. In 2022, she assisted the Korea National Opera in a production of La Traviata. She has been a scholarship holder of the German Music Council's Conducting Forum since 2022.