Lift your soul beyond the ordinary.

Mozart's music carries a sense of ease and light, grace and joy quietly woven into every note. Tchaikovsky's music reaches somewhere deeper, echoing the human journey of longing and intensity towards hope. Together, their music transcends the ordinary.

Join us at St. Giles Presbyterian Church in Calgary on May 23, 2026 at 7:00 PM with guest violin soloist Dongwhi Kim.
Program

Conductor: Jeongmin Park

Part I – Holiness
Purity and Divine Order
Mozart – Violin Concerto No. 5 in A Major, K.219 “Turkish”

Part II – Hope
Human Emotion and Hope
Tchaikovsky – Serenade for Strings in C Major, Op. 48

Donghwi Kim
Seoul, South Korea
Violinist Donghwi Kim is a graduate of Yewon School, Seoul Arts High School, and the University of Seoul. He completed his Master's program in Chamber Music at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater München (Munich).
A prize-winning chamber musician, he took 1st Prize at the Prague Spring International Music Festival Competition (String Quartet) along with Special Prizes in 6 categories, and received a Special Prize at the ARD International Music Competition (String Quartet) in Germany. He was also awarded the Best Performance Prize for Commissioned Work at the Premio Paolo Borciani International Competition (String Quartet) in Italy, as well as a Special Prize with the Jeunesses Musicales Germany Scholarship.
He has performed in the Kumho Art Hall Young Chamber Concert and Rising Stars Series, and has been featured on KBS Music Studio Salon de Musique and Summer Music School: Mozart in the Drawing Room. Internationally, he has been invited to the Prague Spring Festival, Mozartfest Würzburg, Schleswig-Holstein Musik Festival, and Ravenna Festival. In Korea, he has appeared at the Seoul Arts Center Summer Music Festival, Lotte Concert Hall Classic Revolution, Sejong Center for the Performing Arts, Changwon International Chamber Music Festival, Gangneung Arts Festival, and many more. As a soloist, he has performed with the St. Petersburg Maly Hall, Seoul Sinfonietta, and the Korea Armed Forces Symphony Orchestra, among others.
He has served as guest concertmaster of the Compassion Orchestra, Heyri Pan Festival Orchestra, and Ars Ensemble, and as concertmaster of the University of Seoul Orchestra and Korea Armed Forces Symphony Orchestra. He was formerly a violinist with the Arete Quartet. Currently, Donghwi serves as Concertmaster of SOP Ensemble.

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