Hailed as “eloquent” by the Boston Globe, Korean-born cellist Mina Kim has been making music in the Boston area since 2010. Mina has appeared as a featured musician on WQXR’s McGraw Hill Young Artist Showcase and Longy’s Septemberfest concert series. As a member of the Rasa String Quartet, Mina has competed in the semi-final round at the Plowman Chamber Music Competition and in the International Osaka Chamber Music Competition in 2023. With the ensemble, she also held a residency as the Gilbert Concert Artist at the Phillips Exeter Academy.
As a passionate educator, Mina has been teaching at the Phillips Exeter since 2019 and given masterclasses at UMass Dartmouth and Phillips Exeter Academy. She also coached chamber music to college and graduate students as Marty Jeivens Fellow at the Maine Chamber Music Seminar in 2023.
When she's not playing classical music, Mina jams and concertizes with her genre-straddling string ensemble, ROSIN. By borrowing a little bit from a lot of different kinds of music, they have created what they like to call "disreputable classical music." Mina's fellow ROSIN mates are bassist Zachariah Hickman, violist Annie Bartlett, and fiddler-composer Jake Armerding. Together, ROSIN has advanced to the final round of the 21CM Emerging Artist Competition at Depauw School of Music.
In 2023, Mina earned a Doctor of Musical Arts degree at New England Conservatory as the Gregor Piatigorsky Fund recipient, studying with Yeesun Kim and Mike Block. She holds a Master of Music degree from New England Conservatory as well as both a Bachelor of Music from Emerson College and an Undergraduate Diploma from Longy School of Music of Bard College, studying with Terry King.