Every new generation produces a fresh young crop of brilliant violinists, but only a very select few of them possess all the requisite qualities to achieve true star status on the international circuit. Having already achieved superstar status in her home country, South Korean born Bomsori Kim is without a doubt destined to become one of these, bursting onto the scene and announcing her stall in 2017 with her debut Warner Classics recording of Wieniawski's Violin Concerto No.2 and Shostakovich's Violin Concerto No.1.
Subsequent Deutsche Grammophon releases have confirmed that here is certainly an artist of formidable talent and technique, capable of fully inheriting the mantle of traditional interpretations while infusing them with her own inspired layers of subtlety and nuance. Indeed, if her interpretation of the Beethoven Violin Concerto In D Major last Friday at the Thailand Cultural Centre (TCC) is anything to go by, she is in fact that rarest of musical creatures, blessed with the innate ability to take the mighty warhorse concertos and raise them to the next level for today's audiences.
