Jin Kim is in his first season as music director of the Atlantic Symphony Orchestra.

In his ten years with the Hingham Symphony Orchestra, Kim has created one of the premier professional orchestras in the New England region. The music critics including The Boston Globe have consistently praised the orchestra’s performances as “spectacular, dramatic, expressive, confident and unified”.

Kim is the recipient of the 2003 Robert Shaw Conducting Fellowship, a prestigious career development award underwritten by the National Endowment for the Arts and Warner Brothers Publications, presented annually to one outstanding conductor in North America.

Kim has appeared with the National Symphony (DC), National Arts Center (Ottawa), Chicago Civic Orchestras. He has also conducted the Eastman Philharmonia, and orchestras at Boston University and Boston Conservatory.

He made his European conducting debut with the Plzen Radio Philharmonic at the 2004 Sibelius Symposium in Czech Republic. In 2004, he made his Asian conducting debut with Bucheon Philharmonic Orchestra, one of the leading professional orchestras in Korea.

Kim is a former music director of the Empire State Youth Orchestras in Albany, New York. During his tenure, he garnered rave reviews from critics for raising the performance standards of the orchestra already considered by many as one of the top youth orchestras in the country. He has also taught orchestral conducting at Boston University and served as a visiting conductor of the Boston University Chamber Orchestra.

Equally versatile in the choral-orchestral genre, Mr. Kim was the winner of the 1995 American Choral Directors Association’s National Conducting Competition and a founding music director of Magnum Chorum and ensemble in Minnesota.

As a pianist he was an active performer and a finalist at the Minnesota Orchestra Concerto Competition. Also an accomplished professional singer, he has been a frequent soloist and a member of leading professional choirs in the United States including the Dale Warland Singers, the Oregon Bach Festival Chorus and the Robert Shaw Institute Singers.

Born in Seoul, South Korea, Kim immigrated to the United States at age eleven. He attended the Eastman School of Music where he studied piano with Rebecca Penneys and conducting with David Effron. Kim is also one of only two orchestral conductors ever admitted into the Artist Diploma program at Boston University. His other conducting teachers include Jorma Panula, Leonard Slatkin and Pinchas Zukerman.