Dongmin Kim is the Music Director of the celebrated chamber orchestra New York Classical Players. Since founding NYCP in 2010, he has conducted hundreds of concerts for New Yorkers, three international tours from Asia to South America, and throughout the US. Most recently, he led a series of concerts with NYCP for the last minute stepping in to fill the English Chamber Orchestra's US tour.
Dongmin has conducted various prestigious ensembles, including the National Symphony Orchestra, Seoul Arts Center Festival Orchestra, Round Top Festival Orchestra, Philadelphia Orchestra, Minnesota Orchestra, and the symphony orchestras of Baltimore, Jacksonville, and Winnipeg. He was awarded the Herbert von Karajan Fellowship by the Vienna Philharmonic, which led to a residency at the Salzburg Music Festival. As the Indianapolis Symphony's Schmidt Conducting Fellow, Dongmin worked alongside Mario Venzago and Raymond Leppard.
He has recorded chamber orchestra pieces by renowned composer Samuel Adler for Toccata Classics, which received praise from Luxembourg's Pizzicato Magazine. Additionally, he recorded Korean Art Songs with Haeran Hong for Warner Classics. As a violist, Dongmin has performed in various countries, including the United States, South America, South Korea, Japan, Hong Kong, and Singapore, and has been a principal violist for the Pacific Music Festival Orchestra under MTT.
Born in Seoul, Dongmin studied Orchestral Conducting and Viola at the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music. His distinguished mentors include Kurt Masur, Janos Starker, Leonard Slatkin, Imre Pallo, and David Effron.