Hangyul Kim started the violin at the age of nine under the tutelage of Professor Wendy Sharp of Yale University.  Prior to joining the Baltimore Symphony, Kim was the acting Associate Concertmaster of the Tucson Symphony Orchestra for the 2014/2015 season, and played with the Sydney Symphony and the Calgary Philharmonic.  Kim has studied and performed at the Kennedy Center Summer Music Institute in Washington DC; and at the Eastern Music Festival, where they were a member of the faculty orchestra under the direction of Maestro Gerard Schwarz.  They were also a two-year recipient of the orchestral fellowship at the Aspen Summer Music Festival, as well as a member of the Schleswig-Holstein Festival Orchestra in Germany.

Kim earned their doctorate from the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music where they studied with the late Ik-Hwan Bae.  Kim’s dissertation, titled Erasing the Color Line: The Violin Concerto of Samuel-Coleridge Taylor, traces the life and achievements of African British composer Coleridge-Taylor and questions if race plays a part in deciding what music is performed, disseminated, and preserved over time.

Kim is the dedicatee of Emile Naoumoff’s Dolcissimo (2024), a short piece for violin and piano.

When they are not practicing, Kim volunteers at animal sanctuaries and dutifully serves their two cats.