The Korean-born violinist Wonji Kim-Ozim combines an international solo and chamber music career with a longstanding commitment to teaching at the highest level. Trained by Max Rostal and Igor Ozim, she has performed with leading orchestras across Europe and Asia and has been a member of the Mozarteum University faculty since 2003, where she has led her own violin studio since 2019.
Wonji Kim, born in Seoul, South Korea, received her first lessons from Prof. Li-Song. From 1989 to 1991 she took private lessons with Prof. Max Rostal. She then studied at the Bern Academy of the Arts (formerly the Bern Conservatory) with Prof. Igor Ozim, where she completed her soloist diploma with distinction in 1994.
In the summer semester of 2011 she taught as a guest professor at the University of Music and Performing Arts Graz, and from 2018 to 2019 at the Gustav Mahler Private University. She has won first prize at several national competitions and is also a prizewinner of the Federation of Migros Cooperatives.
She has performed as a soloist with the Seoul Symphony Orchestra, the Bern Symphony Orchestra, the Moscow Radio Symphony Orchestra under Vladimir Fedosejev, the Zurich Chamber Orchestra under Howard Griffiths, the Hungarian National Chamber Orchestra, the German Chamber Academy Neuss, and the Slovenian Philharmonic. She has also appeared at the Sándor Veress Festival in Zurich’s Tonhalle and at the Tous les Violons du Monde festival under the patronage of Sir Yehudi Menuhin at the Casino Bern. As a chamber musician, she has performed at festivals including Herbsttöne Salzburg, Mattseer Diabellisommer, the Ljubljana Festival and the Thomas Mann Festival in Lithuania.
From 1996 to June 2003, Wonji Kim-Ozim taught at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna and the Bern Academy of the Arts as an assistant to Prof. Igor Ozim. She joined the Mozarteum University in October 2003, initially as an assistant, and has led her own studio there since completing her habilitation in 2019.