Jin Hi Kim is a Guggenheim Fellow in Music Composition and internationally acclaimed innovative komungo (Korean fourth century fretted board zither) virtuoso. Kim featured onVoice of America, PRI’s The World and BBC Global Hit has composed for the ancient instrument and Western orchestra and chamber music utilizing her own compositional method, Living Tones. Kim was Music Alive Composer-in-Residence with New Haven Symphony Orchestra (2009-11) and commissioned by the Kronos Quartet, Chamber Music Society for Linclon Center, American Composers Orchestra, Boston Modern Orchestra Project and New Haven Symphony.