Violinist Young Uck Kim, one of the foremost violinists, has had celebrated an international career for over 40 years. He continues to captivate audiences throughout the world as a soloist, a recitalist and as a chamber musician. He has been hailed critiques as "Elegant", "Passionate" and "Virtuosic". The New York Times raved that "Mr. Kim wrapped his concerto in the most beautiful of sounds. Who could resist Mr. Kim's exquisite tone and purity?"

Young Uck Kim has performed across United States, Europe and Japan. He has appeared with virtually every American Orchestra, including those of New York Philharmonic, Philadelphia Orchestra, Chicago Symphony, Cleveland Orchestra, Los Angeles Philharmonic, Washington National Symphony, Saint Louis Symphony and Pittsburgh Orchestra. Summer seasons have included the Tanglewood Music Festival, Ravinia Festival with the Chicago Symphony, Mostly Mozart Festival in New York, Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles and Blossom Festival with Cleveland Orchestra. In Europe, Mr. Kim has performed with such prominent Orchestras as the Berline Philharmonic Orchestra, Vienna Philharmonic, London Philharmonic, Loyal Philharmonic, the Concertgebouw, NDR, WDR and the Saint Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra among many others. And, he has appeared at the festivals including Salzburg Festival, Edinburgh Festival, the London Proms, Lucerne Festival and South Bank Festival of London. He has worked with many conductors including Karajan, Berstein, Ormandy, Stokowski, Ozawa, Simone Rattle, Haitink, Eschenbach, Previn, Esa-Pekka Salonen, Jansen, Franz Welser Möst, and Yuri Temirkanov.

In addition, he is deeply involved in Chamber Music as Ax-Kim-Ma Trio. He had been a member of Beaux Arts Trio from 1998 to 2002. He has played Chamber Music with Rudolph Serkin, András Schiff, Yo-Yo Ma, Emanuel Ax, Peter Serkin, Isaac Stern, Andre Previn, Christoph Eschenbach and many others. In addition to recital and annual orchestral tour, Young Uck Kim's Schedule regularly includes special project to which he is deeply committed. He has played the premier of Gunther Schuller's Violin Concerto, Andre Previn's Sonata for Violin and Piano, Tobias Picker's Sonata for Violin and Piano and Hans Vogt Violin Concerto. Those pieces were written for Mr. Kim and on which he collaborated with the composers. Another Special project, he has performed with Peter Serkin for the complete cycle of the Mozart Sonatas in New York, in addition to single performances in over 20 cities. The success of that, undertaking inspired Mr. Kim and Mr. Serkin to collaborate in programming the complete Beethoven Sonatas for Violin and Piano with performances in 18 cities throughout the country. He has also played complete Mozart Sonatas with Christoph Eschenback in New York, Tokyo and London.

He made the recordings of the complete Mozart Violin Concertos with conductor Christoph Eschenbach and the London Philharmonic Orchestra on Pony Canyan Label, Chamber Music Works with Ax-Kim-Ma Trio for Dvorak Piano Trio on Sony Label and complete Schumann and Mozart piano quartet with Andre Previn for BMG. He also recorded with Deutsche Gramophone for his Debut Recording of Bach Partita in b minor, Beethoven Violin Sonata in E♭Major and Mendelssohn, Bruch Violin Concertos with Banberger Symphony.

Young Uck Kim was born in Seoul, South Korea and attended the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia where he studied with the legendary Ivan Galamian. In his performances world wide, Young Uck Kim has earned a reputation as "one of the violin Marvels" quoted from San Francisco Examiner. Currently, he is a professor of Violin at Seoul National University, also an artistic director of Seoul Arts Center.