She starts with subtraction. In front of a score everyone thinks they know down to the semiquaver – Felix Mendelssohn’s Violin Concerto – Bomsori Kim argues that the impulse to add, to make it “new”, usually pushes the music away from itself. “If you try to sound novel by design, it becomes odd,” she says. “Very often, the simplest way is the best.”

The principle will be tested publicly this autumn when Bomsori steps on stage with the Seoul Philharmonic Orchestra for the first time, plays Mendelssohn with them in Seoul, and then takes the same programme across the ocean to Carnegie Hall on the orchestra’s US tour. 

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