Kyungjin Lim

Kyungjin Lim was born in 1991 in Seoul, South Korea. He took his basic musical training in the subjects of piano, music theory and composition from Ms. Sunhee Cho.

From 2011 to 2015, he studied composition with Prof. Kyungmee Rhee at the Hanyang University (Collage of Music). From 2018 to 2021 he studied composition (Master of Music) at the HfMDK Mannheim with Prof. Sidney Corbett. He worked with various ensembles and orchestras, included the Ensemble, for example, SONOR XXI, Ensemble DCMF, Ensemble TIMF, Ensemble E-MEX, Two Button Brass, Ensemble Mosaic, Chungbuk Philharmoniker, National Hungarian Radio Orchestra and the Symphony Orchestra TonArt Heidelberg. 

In 2019, he received a composition commission from the “Städtische Bühnen gGmbH Osnabrück” for his first opera “Das Ebenbild”, which had premiered as part of “Spieltreibe 8” in 2019 by the Osnabrück Theater. He also received the publishing house award in the 1st Impronta Ensemble composition competition. His works are published by Impronta Edition UG and Babelscores. Mr. Lim took part in numerous master classes and festivals such as the DCMF (Korea), Composition Masterclass Synthesis (Poland), SCBA (Sweden), Impuls Festival (Austria), She Lives (Hungary), IDEA (Rome) or the Darmstadt Summer Course for New Music (Germany), where his pieces had also performed. Since 2015, he is a general music director of Ensemble SONOR XXI since 2015, and has been studying composition (Postgraduate degree) at the HfMDK Mannheim since 2021.