Violinist Haeun Kim, age fourteen, is an 8th grade student at the Alabama School of Fine Arts, Birmingham, AL. She started learning the violin when she was four years old. Currently, she is studying violin with Cornelia Heard who is a professor at Vanderbilt University, Nashville and Jenny Gregoire who is a professor of the University of Alabama. Haeun is a current recipient of the Myra Jackson Blair Scholarship (full merit-based scholarship) and this prestigious scholarship is awarded by the Blair School of Music, Vanderbilt University.
Since age eleven, Haeun has won numerous competitions across the country. At age eleven, Haeun debuted at Carnegie Hall in New York as a winner of The American Protégé International Competition. At the age of twelve, Haeun made her orchestral debut as a soloist with the Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra in New Orleans. She also received first place for the 2012 Samuel Fordis Young Artist Concerto Competition in Georgia, and she soloed with the Georgia Philharmonic Orchestra. In the summer of 2013, she was chosen as a winner of the 2013 Interlochen Concerto Competition and performed as a soloist with the Interlochen Symphony Orchestra in Interlochen, Michigan. At age thirteen, she received the second prize in the Lois Pickard Music Scholarship Competition in Birmingham and placed first in Alabama Federation of Music Clubs Competition as well as the Alabama representative of the Stillman-Kelly National Competition. In 2014, she won first place in the junior division (age 11-15) of the 2014 ENKOR International Competition for Violin and Piano. Most recently, she was awarded the third prize of the Second Leopold Auer International Violin Competition in St. Petersburg, Russia and was selected as a winner of the 2014 Southern Adventist University Concerto Competition to perform with the orchestra in Chattanooga, TN in February 2015. Over the past summers, she participated in Credo, Arianna Chamber Music Festival, Interlochen Summer Arts Camp, and the Heifetz International Music Institute.