Heather Kim
Heather Kim is a seventeen-year-old flutist from Orange County, California. She began her musical training at the Tampereen Konservatorio on the piano at the age of five, and started playing the flute in Buffalo, New York at the age of eleven.
Heather was selected as a National YoungArts Winner in both 2022 and 2023 and was named the winner of Young Stars of the Future 2023, receiving the opportunity to perform as a soloist with the South Coast Symphony in January of 2023. She was the winner of the Orange County School of the Arts 2022 Concerto Competition, received an honorable mention from the Mount Saint Mary’s 2022 Music Competition, and won first prize in the 2022 Charleston International Winter Competition. She currently studies with Benjamin Smolen, principal flutist of the Pacific Symphony, and her previous teachers include Cynthia Ellis and Natalie Debikey Scanio.
She was awarded the position of principal flutist of the Symphony Orchestra and Wind Ensemble at the Orange County School of the Arts in her sophomore year and is the principal flutist of the Pacific Symphony Youth Orchestra. She served as principal flutist of the Interlochen Arts Camp’s Interlochen Philharmonic Orchestra during the summer of 2021, and the Brevard Concert Orchestra during the summer of 2022. She was also accepted into Interlochen Arts Camp, and the Boston University Tanglewood Institute in 2022 and 2023.
In the past, she has participated in ensembles such as the Pacific Symphony Youth Wind Ensemble, the California All State Music Conference High School Orchestra, and the Southern California School Band and Orchestra Association ensembles, the New York State School Music Association ensembles, the Irvine Honor Orchestra, and the Erie County Music Educators Association ensembles. She also uses her musical abilities to serve her community through various programs and organizations including the Smile Train, the Dragon Kim Foundation, Back to Bach and the Tri-M Honor Society.
Heather was selected as a National YoungArts Winner in both 2022 and 2023 and was named the winner of Young Stars of the Future 2023, receiving the opportunity to perform as a soloist with the South Coast Symphony in January of 2023. She was the winner of the Orange County School of the Arts 2022 Concerto Competition, received an honorable mention from the Mount Saint Mary’s 2022 Music Competition, and won first prize in the 2022 Charleston International Winter Competition. She currently studies with Benjamin Smolen, principal flutist of the Pacific Symphony, and her previous teachers include Cynthia Ellis and Natalie Debikey Scanio.
She was awarded the position of principal flutist of the Symphony Orchestra and Wind Ensemble at the Orange County School of the Arts in her sophomore year and is the principal flutist of the Pacific Symphony Youth Orchestra. She served as principal flutist of the Interlochen Arts Camp’s Interlochen Philharmonic Orchestra during the summer of 2021, and the Brevard Concert Orchestra during the summer of 2022. She was also accepted into Interlochen Arts Camp, and the Boston University Tanglewood Institute in 2022 and 2023.
In the past, she has participated in ensembles such as the Pacific Symphony Youth Wind Ensemble, the California All State Music Conference High School Orchestra, and the Southern California School Band and Orchestra Association ensembles, the New York State School Music Association ensembles, the Irvine Honor Orchestra, and the Erie County Music Educators Association ensembles. She also uses her musical abilities to serve her community through various programs and organizations including the Smile Train, the Dragon Kim Foundation, Back to Bach and the Tri-M Honor Society.