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Sunghae Anna Lim, violin

Sunghae Anna Lim has concertized extensively throughout the United States, England, Austria and Japan as a chamber musician and soloist. She is a founding member of the Laurel Trio, which won the 1995 Nathan Wedeen Award at the Concert Artists Guild Competition in New York. The Trio has performed to critical acclaim across the country and has served as ensemble-in residence at numerous music festivals and organizations, including WQXR (the radio station of The New York Times) and the Tanglewood Music Festival.

As violinist of New Millennium Ensemble, Ms. Lim won the coveted Naumburg Chamber Music Award, which included a debut at Alice Tully Hall at Lincoln Center. Over the last decade she has been actively involved in the contemporary music scene, premiering and recording over 100 works by living composers. Ms. Lim has participated in music festivals such as Marlboro, Ravinia, Prussia Cove, the Portland Chamber Music Festival and the Laurel Festival of the Arts. As a soloist, she has appeared with the Honolulu Symphony, the Princeton Symphony Orchestra, the Delaware Valley Philharmonic, and has toured Japan with the Viennese chamber orchestra "Ensemble Nine."

Ms. Lim has taught chamber music at the Yale School of Music and currently teaches violin at Princeton University. She has recorded for Koch International, CRI, Centaur Records and Newport Classics and last season worked with conductor Robert Craft to record chamber works of Webern for the Naxos label. She received a B.A. from Harvard University in German History and Literature and completed her Diplom at the Mozarteum in Salzburg.

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