Emma-Grace Kim, violinist, is a sophomore at Oakton High School. Emma-Grace has won numerous competitions, including Virginia MTNA Competition, NVMTA Achievement Awards, AAMS Competition, and NVMTA Concerto Competition among others. She gave her first solo performance with an orchestra at nine years old. Since then, she has performed solos and recitals at venues such as the Kennedy Center’s Millennium Stage, Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library, and the National Gallery of Art. Last year, Emma-Grace was featured at WETA Classical’s Annual Salon Series at the House of Sweden, and also performed at the Embassy of the Republic of Korea commemorating the 70th Anniversary of the US-ROK Alliance. In 2022, she participated in NPR From the Top’s Learning and Media Lab Fellowship, which culminated in a recording of Six Duos by Robert Schumann, arranged by Alfredo d’Ambrosio, for radio premier, with concert pianist Peter Dugan and Grammy-award winner Charles Yang. 

Emma-Grace has been a member of the American Youth Philharmonic Orchestra (AYPO) for the last seven years, and is currently concertmaster of American Youth Philharmonic (AYP). This past summer, Emma-Grace attended Boston University’s Tanglewood Institute where she took on the role as concertmaster of the Young Artists Orchestra, and was invited to perform in a masterclass with Boston Symphony Orchestra concertmaster Nathan Cole. Most recently, she was selected as a Kennedy Center National Symphony Orchestra Youth Fellow and is a private student of Jing Qiao, first violinist of the NSO.

Emma-Grace volunteers her time with children in underserved communities through ITZArt4you, a non-profit organization she and her sister founded in 2021. She is also involved in her school club, ITZArt4Oakton, where she organizes music performances at Oakton High School, providing fellow high school musicians a place to share music with the Cat B community.