Biography 

 20-year old Gaeun Kim is a cellist based in New York. 
She is spotlighted as the outstanding virtuosic performer around the world and numerous competitions winner since her age of 4.
Starting from winning both first prize and the special award in the Antonio Janigro Competition in Zagreb, Croatia, She has also won first prizes in the Liezen International Competition, and the David Popper International Cello Competition.
She was selected as a “30 Representative stars in the Culture & Arts Industry of the Republic of Korea”, “Samsung Foundation Rising Star'', and as one of the six winners of the ‘Classe d’Excellence de Violoncelle’, led by Gautier Capucon, performing as the Louis Vuitton Fondation Artist until 2021. Furthermore, in 2023, she got invited as the special jury at the “World Biggest Stage International Competition”. 

 Most recently, she has been honorably received 1st prize and the Pablo Casals special award at the 2022 Irving M.Klein International Competition, and is scheduled for many concerts in the US from the upcoming season.
In the 2023-24 season, Gaeun will make concert appearances in the major concert halls around the world, which includes solo performances in Germany, Switzerland, Korea, New York, San Francisco, Palo Alto, St.Thomas, Poland, etc. Her concert includes performances with Santa Cruz Symphony Orchestra, Peninsula Symphony Orchestra, Master Sinfonia Chamber Orchestra, Long Island Philharmonic Orchestra, etc, and she would also be active as a featured cellist and an invited chamber musician at “The Seoul Spring Music Festival”, “Music in the Vineyards”, “Water Island Music Festival”, and the “Moritzburg Festival”. 

 Gaeun has won first prize in a plethora of national competitions as well, including the Seoul Classic Music Competition, the Music & Chunchu Competition, the Little Mozart Competition, the Yewon Competition, the Youngsan Music Competition, the Sungjong Music Competition, and the Ehwa & Kyunghyang Competition. She is also a recipient of the Shinhan Music Award, the Yewon Music Award, and the Director Award of the Korean National Institute for Gifted in Arts.
She has performed in the Special Concert for Her Majesty the Queen of the Belgians and the First Lady of Republic of Korea, the Antonio Janigro Cello Festival, the Asian Forum of Legislative Information Affairs, the 17th Anniversary Celebration Concert of CBS in Jeju Island, the One Month Festival, the Hwasung Music Festival, the 50th Anniversary Concert of Yewon Art School, the 7th Seoul Culture Night Concert hosted by Seoul Metropolitan Government, the Celebration of the March 1st Independence Movement Festival, and a collaboration with the Korea Institute of Arts and Genetic Education Concert. Her soloist performances includes playing with the Zagreb Soloists, the Euro-Asian Philharmonic Orchestra, Long Island Philharmonic Orchestra, Master Sinfonia  Philharmonic Orchestra, the Suwon Symphony Orchestra, the Incheon Symphony Orchestra, the Bucheon Symphony Orchestra, the Seongnam Symphony Orchestra, and the New World Philharmonic Orchestra. 

In addition to her highlights on stage, Gaeun has been featured on several radio programs and TV shows on From the Top, MBC, KBS radio, C Channel, etc.
She's been also featured in major music magazines which includes, The Strad, New York Concert Review INC, Korean Ministry of Culture, Music Chunchu, Music Journal. Furthermore, as a sought-after artist, she highlights not only regular repertories but also a lot of contemporary music, and has been performing and recording premiere pieces by worldwide composers, Gloria Justen, Julian Gargiulo, Seounyun Kim,
Jacky Liu, Yuxuan Lin, etc.

 Gaeun is currently continuing her music life in The Juilliard School, under Richard Aaron, as a honorary scholarship recipient from 2020.
She is a Korean ambassador of Jargar Strings.

Her past lists of studies include Yewon School, Seoul Arts High School, and Korea National University of Arts.