Dahae Kim
cello
About this Artist
Cellist Dahae Kim joined the LA Phil as Assistant Principal in 2016. Previously, she served as Assistant Principal Cello of the Detroit Symphony Orchestra. She was featured as soloist with the DSO in the Benjamin Lees Concerto for String Quartet and Orchestra led by Leonard Slatkin and with the Detroit Medical Orchestra performing the Saint-Saëns Cello Concerto No. 1 in 2014.
Kim completed her studies at the New England Conservatory of Music in 2013 as a recipient of the Gregor Piatigorsky Scholarship, earning Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees as a student of Laurence Lesser and Paul Katz. She also studied privately with famed cellist Bernard Greenhouse, a founding member of the Beaux Arts Trio. She won first place in the 2010 Hudson Valley String Competition, returning the following year to perform Shostakovich’s Cello Concerto No. 1. She was a participant at the Tanglewood Music Center for three years and served as Principal Cello of the National Repertory Orchestra in the summer of 2012, performing as soloist in the Lalo Cello Concerto. As a chamber musician, she has performed on numerous occasions in Jordan Hall in Boston and Ozawa Hall at Tanglewood and coached with members of the Cleveland, Takács, Borromeo, and Juilliard string quartets.
Kim was born in Seoul, South Korea, and first studied music with her mother, who taught her piano and violin. At age 8, she moved with her family to Rockland County, NY; there she took up cello studies with Irene Sharp and New York Philharmonic cellist Qiang Tu.