Hannah Yim

Hannah Yim is currently the Assistant Concertmaster of the Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra, which she joined in 2007. She completed her BMus and MMus in music performance from the Jacobs School of Music, Indiana University, where she studied with Alexander Kerr and Henryk Kowalski. She was a scholarship student at IU, where she became the recipient of numerous academic awards including the E & E Knapik, N Neal, Carol A. Wingler Memorial, and the Founders Day Award.

An avid chamber musician, Hannah is a regular performer in the Trinity Artist Series, Bach Around the Clock, and the Marigny Opera House. In 2010 and 2012, she shared the New Orleans Tribute to the Classical Arts Award for Best Chamber Music Performances. During her time at UC Berkeley, she was also a frequent guest performer for the Wednesday Noon Concert series. Hannah is privileged to have worked and performed in concert with a variety of artists, including tango pianist Pablo Ziegler (2007), jazz clarinetist Anat Cohen (2007), and most recently with Bela Fleck (2015). She has performed in Jazz Fest, Voodoo Fest, and the French Quarter Festival in New Orleans, and the Lotus World Music and Arts Festival in Bloomington, IN.

She currently spends her summers in Breckenridge, CO, as a section violinist in the Breckenridge Music Festival. She has also been a member of the National Repertory Orchestra and the Mendocino Music Festival. Other orchestras she has performed with over the years include: the New World Symphony, Louisville Orchestra, San Bernardino Symphony, and the Evansville Philharmonic Orchestra.

Hannah also enjoys her broad and varied involvement in various educational outreaches. Through the Louisiana Philharmonic's educational programs, she has had the opportunity to work with students and audiences ranging from music therapy work through the weekly Soul String collaborative, to coaching sectionals with the Greater New Orleans Youth Orchestra. In addition, in Breckenridge, she enjoys coaching the Front Range sectionals every summer as well as performing education outreaches for both children and adults. During her 2012-13 sabbatical year, she was Artist in Residence for the Community Youth Orchestra of Southern California, where she coached and performed with the chamber orchestra in Irvine, CA.

In 2013, Hannah created Harlequin Chamber Music, a collective of symphony-based string players who perform at weddings and other events around the city. She is also a founder and the main arranger/organizer for Sixteen-Strings NOLA, a rock and pops offshoot of Harlequin Chamber Music. She arranges rock and pop covers regularly for string quartet (with bass) and views this as her most enjoyable and important musical work to date--she currently has over 80 cover arrangements for her string quartet, and the collection is continually growing!

In her free time, Hannah enjoys being a foodie, reading, marathon-watching TV shows and YouTube clips, salsa and swing dancing, and photography. She also recently became a certified mixologist.

She is available for private lessons and coachings, and can be contacted here.
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