Marta Gardolińska & Bomsori Kim

Marta Gardolińska is currently Music Director of Opéra National de Lorraine and Principal Guest Conductor of Orquestra Simfònica de Barcelona. She came to international attention in 2018 as Young Conductor in Association at the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra where she conducted two highly successful subscription concerts. This led to a Dudamel Fellowship with the Los Angeles Philharmonic during the 19-20 season which included an invitation to be second conductor to Gustavo Dudamel for their Grammy award-winning live Deutsche Grammophon recording of Ives Symphony No. 4. Marta then returned to Los Angeles to make her debut with the Orchestra at the Hollywood Bowl followed by an immediate re-invitation.

This season sees Marta return to the Swedish Radio Symphony and make her debuts with the Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin, Toronto Symphony, Minnesota Orchestra and join the Stavanger Symphony, Oslo Philharmonic, RAI Torino Orchestra and Hallé Orchestra. Marta will also make her debut at the Dresden Semperoper conducting La traviata and see her conduct Eugene Onegin at the Opéra National de Lorraine.

Last season Marta made her debuts with the BBC Scottish Symphony and hr-Sinfonieorchester. Marta also returned to the Orquesta Sinfónica de Tenerife after opening their 22/23 season and conducted performances of Haydn’s The Creation with the Orquestra Simfònica de Barcelona.

Recent highlights have included debuts with the London Symphony Orchestra, Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Orchestre national du Capitole de Toulouse, Orchestre Chambre de Paris, Royal Scottish National Orchestra, Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra, and the Scottish Chamber Orchestra.

“This violinist is ready for anything: with virtuosity, presence, clarity and a warm, rich tone, Bomsori is adept at making each moment her own” -Crescendo Magazine

In February 2021, Bomsori signed in Berlin the exclusive contract with the Deutsche Grammophon label.
Bomsori has had the privilege of performing under the direction of multiple conductors, including Fabio Luisi, Jaap van Zweden, Marin Alsop, Lahav Shani, Vasily Petrenko, Pablo Heras-Casado, Hannu Lintu, Sakari Oramo, Anja Bilhmaier, Giancarlo Guerrero with numerous leading orchestras, such as New York Philharmonic, Danish National Orchestra, Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Moscow Symphony Orchestra, Montreal Symphony Orchestra, Belgian National Orchestra, Warsaw National Philharmonic Orchestra, NDR Radiophilharmonie Hannover, Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra, Camerata Salzburg, Munich Chamber Orchestra, Basel Chamber Orchestra amongst others.
Bomsori has appeared at numerous venues worldwide, such as Musikverein Golden Hall in Vienna, Tchaikovsky Hall in Moscow, the Herkulessaal and the Prinzregententheater in Munich, Berlin Philharmonic, Rudolfinum and Smetana Hall in Prague, Carnegie Hall and Lincoln Center in New York.
In addition to winning the 62nd ARD International Music Competition, Bomsori is a prize winner of the Tchaikovsky International Competition, Queen Elisabeth Competition, International Jean Sibelius Violin Competition, Joseph Joachim International Violin Competition Hannover, Montreal International Musical Competition, Sendai International Music Competition and the 15th International Henryk Wieniawski Violin Competition. Bomsori received the 2018 Young Artist Award from the Korean Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism, and the Korean Music Association’s 2019 Young Artist Award. In 2020, she was presented with the 4th G.rium Artists Award by the Foundation Academia Platonica.
In June 2021 Bomsori released her first Deutsche Grammophon solo Album, Violin on Stage, with NFM Wroclaw Philharmonic and Giancarlo Guerrero.The duo album with pianist Rafał Blechacz, featuring works by Fauré, Debussy, Szymanowski and Chopin, was released in February 2019 by Deutsche Grammophon. The album won the Fryderyk Music Award for “Best Polish Album Abroad” for their DG recording of French and Polish repertoire.
Born in South Korea, Bomsori received a Bachelor degree at Seoul National University, where she studied with Young Uck Kim. She also earned her Master of Music Degree and Artist Diploma at The Juilliard School where she studied with Sylvia Rosenberg and Ronald Copes.
She performs on the Guarnerius del Gesù violin “ex-Moller,” Cremona, 1725, on extended loan through the generous efforts of The Samsung Foundation of Culture of Korea and The Stradivari Society of Chicago, Illinois.