Bomsori

The young violinist Bomsori is a star in her home country of Korea and now also regularly performs at renowned concert halls worldwide. She has appeared in concert with leading orchestras such as the New York Philharmonic, the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra and the Orchestre symphonique de Montréal and has worked with famous conductors such as Marin Alsop, Paavo Järvi, Santtu-Matias Rouvali and Jaap van Zweden. She has performed at festivals such as the Rheingau Music Festival, the Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival and the Verbier Festival and in 2021 began a five-year residency at the Gstaad Menuhin Festival. She makes her debut at the Salzburg Festival this season.

Highlights of the 2025/26 season have included performances with the Vienna Symphony Orchestra under Marie Jacquot, the Orchestre de Paris under Oksana Lyniv, the BBC Philharmonic, the Orchestra Sinfonia Nazionale della RAI and the Seoul Philharmonic Orchestra. She was also artist in residence with the Residentie Orkest in The Hague.

Recent highlights have included her debuts at the BBC Proms and with the Los Angeles Philharmonic at the Hollywood Bowl, a tour with the Tonhalle Orchestra, Zurich, under Paavo Järvi and performances at the Edinburgh Festival, with the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, the Orquesta y Coro Nacionales de España, the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen and the Academy of St Martin in the Fields. In the 2024/25 season she performed in Salzburg at the Großes Festspielhaus with the Antwerp Symphony Orchestra.

Her discography as an exclusive artist with Deutsche Grammophon includes the violin concertos of Korngold and Bruch with the Bamberg Symphony under Jakub Hrůša, the album Violin on Stage, a duo album with Rafał Blechacz (Fryderyk Award) and Nielsen’s Violin Concerto with the Danish National Symphony Orchestra under Fabio Luisi (BBC Music Magazine Award 2024).

Bomsori studied at the Seoul National University and the Juilliard School with Sylvia Rosenberg and Ronald Copes. She is a prize-winner of the ARD International Music Competition, the International Tchaikovsky Competition, the Concours Reine Elisabeth and the International Jean Sibelius Violin Competition. She was honoured with the Young Artist Award by the Korean Ministry of Culture.

Bomsori plays the Guarneri del Gesù ‘ex Moller’ from 1725, kindly made available to her by the Samsung Foundation of Culture and the Stradivari Society of Chicago.