New York Youth Symphony
The Marica and Jan Vilcek Music Director | Orchestra
Director | Robert L. Poster Apprentice Conducting

The Conducting Institute
Faculty

The Solti Foundation U.S.
2024 Career Assistance Award

Recipient of the 2024 Solti Foundation U.S. Career Assistance Award, Andrew Jinhong Kim is a conductor dedicated to passionate and joyful collaboration. Having had his life transformed by music, he strives to create and share extraordinary musical moments with others and to cultivate a vibrant musical community wherever he goes.

He started his tenure as the Music Director of New York Youth Symphony Orchestra in Fall 2023, making a successful Carnegie Hall debut performing alongside Augustin Hadelich. At NYYS, he works with talented young musicians to perform cornerstone repertoire and premiere works by young American composers at Carnegie Hall. In addition, he continues his passion for training young conductors through leading the Robert L. Poster Apprentice Conducting Program.

Andrew also serves on the faculty of the Conducting Institute, a comprehensive training program led by Miguel Harth-Bedoya. In this role, he coaches conducting students, teaches classes on aural skills, keyboard skills, and other topics, and works on curricular planning and execution.

Additional highlights of Andrew’s 24-25 season include collaborating with soloists Valerie Coleman, Clayton Stephenson, Alexa Jarvis, and Helen Liu Gerhold, residencies at Rice and Baylor Universities, guest conducting Berkshire Symphony, Brooklyn Symphony, and Delaware County Youth Orchestra with his mentor Andrew Hauze as the soloist.

Andrew has conducted orchestras in the US and beyond, including Südwestdeutsche Philharmonie Konstanz, Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra, Fort Wayne Philharmonic, Duluth Superior Symphony Orchestra, among others. He regularly serves as a Cover Conductor with the Minnesota Orchestra and has also served as the Assistant Conductor of Duluth Superior Symphony Orchestra. He has participated in the Conductor’s Workshop at Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music with Cristian Macelaru, in Internationale Sommerakademie Radolfzell with Johannes Schlaefli, and appeared in performances at PRISMA Festival in Powell River, Canada and Wintergreen Festival in Virginia.

Andrew studied with Mark Russell Smith at University of Minnesota, with Octavio Más-Arocas at Ithaca College, and with Andrew Hauze at Swarthmore College. Beyond school, he is mentored by Miguel Harth-Bedoya. His other teachers include Matthew Caretti, Joseph Gregorio, Gary Gress, and Richard Rotz.

Outside of music, Andrew enjoys reading books of all kinds, looking for new coffee shops and beans, visiting works by the architect Tadao Ando, and cooking with his wife, violinist Emily Scicchitano.