Christy Kim is a senior at William Mason High School in Ohio and started playing the violin at the age of six. She won top prizes in the 2023 Matinée Musicale Cincinnati Nancy F. Walker Memorial Scholarship Competition, the 2021 David L. Pierson Concerto Competition, the 2020 Jack & Lucille Wonnell Young Artist Concerto Competition and the 2023–24 (Philharmonic) and 2018–19 (Concert Orchestra) Cincinnati Symphony Youth Orchestra concerto competitions, and she has performed as a soloist with the Dayton Philharmonic Orchestra, the Blue Ash Montgomery Symphony Orchestra and the Cincinnati Symphony Youth Orchestra (Concert Orchestra). She was also awarded prizes in the 2023 YoungArts National Competition, the 2023 Walgreens National Concerto Competition, the 2022 and 2023 Overture Awards, the 2022 Sejong Music Competition, the 2022 Society of American Musicians Violin Competition, and the 2019 Louisville Young Artist Concerto Competition.

Kim has been the concertmaster of the Cincinnati Symphony Youth Orchestra (Philharmonic) since the 2022–23 season and plays in the Mason Symphony Orchestra and her school’s Symphony Chamber Orchestra. She also served as concertmaster of the Ohio Music Education Association All-State and Southwest Regional orchestras for the 2022 and 2023 seasons, as well as the Cincinnati Symphony Youth Orchestra (Concert Orchestra) for the 2018–19 and 2019–20 seasons. She participated in the National Youth Orchestra 2 (2022).

Kim has traveled to festivals including Chamber Music Northwest’s Young Artist Institute (2023), the Vivace International Music Festival (2023), the Bowdoin International Music Festival (2019, 2020), the Innsbrook Institute of Music (2018), and the Cincinnati Young Artists Music Festival (2017, 2019). She has played in masterclasses for Clara-Jumi Kang, Marina Chiche, Vadim Gluzman, Karen Gomyo, Tessa Lark, Timothy Lees and Esther Yoo.