Violinist Ariana Kim made her New York recital debut at Carnegie’s Weill Hall as the recipient of a prestigious Artists International Award, and is an assistant professor at Cornell University. She served an interim season as concertmaster of the Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra in New Orleans, and for three years on the faculty of the University of Indianapolis. An avid chamber musician of both contemporary and traditional literature, Kim marks her ninth season as a member of the critically-acclaimed new music ensemble, Ne(x)tworks, with whom she improvises, performs, composes, and records. The group’s debut CD of Earle Brown chamber works on the Mode Records label has been followed by two self-release albums. She is also currently in her tenth season with the Chamber Music Society of Minnesota, with whom she can be heard on Minnesota Public Radio. Her most recent collaborations with the CMSM include performances with pianist Leon Fleisher, cellist Fred Sherry, violists Samuel Rhodes and Nobuko Imai, and clarinetist Charles Neidich. Kim is also a member of The Knights, a New York-based imaginative and diverse flux ensemble that performs programs ranging from unconducted chamber works to the great symphonic masterpieces of the twentieth century. Last summer, she appeared as a soloist with the ensemble and violinist Guillaume Pirard, performing Steve Reich’s Duo for two violins and strings, to be released on The Knights’s next live album. Currently, Ariana co-resides in Ithaca and New York City, where she recently earned her Doctor of Musical Arts degree from the Juilliard School under the tutelage of Robert Mann.

Ms. Kim will appear on John Luther Adams’s The Immeasurable Space of Tones for the festival’s first concert on Thursday, March 5.