New York Youth Symphony
Music Director | Orchestra
Director | Robert L. Poster Apprentice Conducting

The Conducting Institute
Faculty

The Solti Foundation
2024 Career Assistance Award

Andrew J. 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.

Andrew started his tenure as the Music Director of New York Youth Symphony in Fall 2023. In this role, he works with talented young musicians to perform cornerstone repertoire and premiere works by young American composers three times at year at Carnegie Hall. In addition, he continues his passion for training young conductors through leading the Robert L. Poster Apprentice Conducting Program.

Highlights of 2023-2024 season include his Carnegie Hall debut with the New York Youth Symphony, collaborating with eminent soloists such as Augustin Hadelich, Zhu Wang, and Bella Hristova. He will perform repertoire such as Sibelius’s Symphony No. 2, Elgar’s Enigma Variations, and Berlioz’s Symphonie fantastique, while also giving world premieres of young American composers Alex Berko, Grace Hale, and Christian Quiñones.

Andrew also serves on the faculty of the Conducting Institute, a comprehensive conducting training program led by his mentor Miguel Harth-Bedoya. In this role, he teaches classes on aural skills, keyboard skills, and other topics, in addition to helping with curricular planning and execution.

Andrew has conducted orchestras in the US and beyond, including Südwestdeutsche Philharmonie Konstanz, Fort Wayne Philharmonic, Duluth Superior Symphony Orchestra, among others. He has served as the Assistant Conductor of Duluth Superior Symphony Orchestra and as a Cover Conductor with Minnesota Orchestra.

    He has twice 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. He is deeply grateful for all the excellent guidance and mentorship he has received thus far in his life as a musician.