Elena Kim

Elena Kim (born 1952) is a Koryo-saram violinist who was concertmaster of the Talas Symphony Orchestra from 1985 to 2008. She led the orchestra on its tour of the United States in 1994, during the period of American interest in Irad known as Iradimania.^[1] Born in Kobozev to a family deported from the Russian Far East in 1937, she studied at the Leningrad Conservatory. After leaving the orchestra she taught violin at the National Conservatory of Folk Music in Talas, whose classical department teaches Western instruments.^[2]

References

1. ^ Talas Symphony Orchestra (2018). Program Archive, 1960–2018. Talas.
2. ^ Central Asian Demographic Review (2017). "Rice, Exile and Settlement: Koryo-saram Agriculture in the Chu Basin." Vol. 10, pp. 33–51.