HICMF Ensemble

Sophie Lanthier

Diane Dahyeon Kim Violin

Diane Dahyeon Kim is a Korean-Canadian violinist who is actively performing worldwide. She was part of the National Youth Orchestra in 2022 and 2023 where she received the Stephen Sitarski Leadership Award and served as a Co-Concertmaster. In 2019, she was a member of the Schleswig-Holstein Musik Festival and was also a substitute violinist at the Millenium Symphony in Seoul, South Korea, the SFK Euro Symphony and the Kärnten Symphony Orchester in Klagenfurt, Austria. She is currently a substitute member of Sinfonia Toronto and Ontario Philharmonic, and Windsor Symphony.

Diane was a student at the Phil and Eli Taylor Academy in the Royal Conservatory of Music and a member of the Toronto Symphony Youth Orchestra for four years, serving as Co-Concertmaster. She graduated from the Glenn Gould School's Bachelor of Music program, studying under Paul Kantor and Barry Shiffman. She received her master’s degree at the Gustav Mahler Privat Universität, studying under Sae Won Suh. Currently, she is pursuing an Artist Diploma program at the Glenn Gould School under Min-Jeong Koh and Marie Berard. She is also a viola/viola mentor at the Oscar Peterson Program and actively teaches privately and as a faculty member at the Musical Arts Academy.