Julia Kim-Shin

Biography

Julia Kim-Shin began learning violin from the age of seven at the Australian National University’s Canberra School of Music. She completed Violin Performance degrees from the Victorian College of Arts at the University of Melbourne and the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, New York. Her teachers and mentors have included Miwako Abe, Alice Waten, Mark Mogilevski, Dorothy DeLay, Oleh Krysa and Lynn Blakeslee. With a passion for quality music integration into state school curriculum, Julia pursued a degree in Education Policy from Harvard University’s Graduate School of Education in Boston.

During her studies at Eastman, Julia taught violin in the Eastman School Junior Department- Community Education Division and was influenced by Edwin Gordon’s music learning theory. Under several grants from the Michigan Arts Council and the National Endowment for the Arts, Julia helped establish a string teaching program in Michigan and was then appointed as a violin lecturer at Calvin University. She also taught at the South Shore Conservatory of Music in Boston and the Prins Claus Conservatorium of Music in the Netherlands.

As a soloist, orchestral and chamber musician, Julia has performed in Australia, Asia, Europe and the United States. One of the most memorable solos being a televised state performance in North Korea. Orchestras she has participated with include the Heidelberg Schlossfestspiele Orchestra, International Symphony Orchestra; concertmaster, Grand Rapids Symphony, Boston Philharmonic and the Albany Symphony Orchestras, performing at venues including Carnegie Hall and Tanglewood in the USA.

Julia is an advocate for the inclusion of quality music learning in the core curriculum of early education and hopes to collaborate with fellow pedagogues and parliament to make this a more finite reality for our future generations.