Honolulu-born violinist Patrick Yim has performed as soloist, recitalist, chamber musician, and orchestral violinist throughout the world, including performances in Carnegie Hall and David Geffen Hall (New York), Seoul Arts Center, Harpa Concert Hall (Reykjavik), Hong Kong City Hall, Severance Hall (Cleveland), Orchestra Hall (Chicago), Teatro alla Scala (Milan), and the Musikverein (Vienna).

He made his solo debut with the Honolulu Symphony after winning the Honolulu Symphony Concerto Competition. He has performed in the violin sections of the Hawaii Symphony and the Cleveland Orchestra, among others. He joined the Cleveland Orchestra on tours to New York City, Chicago, Bloomington, Iowa City, Miami, and major cities in Europe, including Paris, Milan, Brussels, Luxembourg, Cologne, Munich, and Vienna.

Yim has performed chamber music with members of the Juilliard, Emerson, St. Lawrence, Pacifica, and Ying Quartets, and with musicians from the Cleveland Orchestra and the New York Philharmonic. He has also performed chamber music in festivals in Canada (Banff and Toronto Summer Music Festival), China, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Iceland, and throughout the United States, including a recent performance in Carnegie Hall with members of the Emerson Quartet.

As Guest Music Director of the Collegium Musicum Hong Kong, he collaborated with world-renowned pipa virtuoso Wu Man and performed concerts at the Hong Kong City Hall as violinist and conductor.

He has performed world premieres at festivals in the United States and Europe, and he recently curated a series of concerts related to the Silk Road at the Hong Kong Museum of History for which he commissioned and premiered new works for solo violin by Michael-Thomas Foumai (Honolulu), Austin Yip (Hong Kong), and Yao Chen (Beijing). He has performed with the Contemporary Chamber Players (New York) and the Hong Kong New Music Ensemble.

Yim has taught violin and chamber music at Stony Brook University, the Cleveland Institute of Music Preparatory Department, the Interlochen Summer Arts Camp, the Flatirons Chamber Music Festival, and the Rushmore Music Festival. He has taught masterclasses and workshops in the United States, Denmark, Iceland, Hong Kong, Taiwan, and China.

He is a graduate with honours of the Cleveland Institute of Music (CIM) where he was a student of David Updegraff and William Preucil and was awarded the First Prize at the Institute’s Darius Milhaud Performance Prize Competition for two consecutive years. At CIM, he studied chamber music with the Cavani Quartet and Peter Salaff of the Cleveland Quartet. He earned his Doctor of Musical Arts degree from Stony Brook University where he studied violin with Philip Setzer, Jennifer Frautschi, and Hagai Shaham, and chamber music with the Emerson Quartet.

He is Assistant Professor in the Department of Music at Hong Kong Baptist University.

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小提琴家嚴天成生於火奴魯魯，曾以獨奏家、室內樂及樂團成員身份在世界各地演出，包括紐約的卡奈基音樂廳、大衛‧ 爵芬音樂廳、首爾藝術中心、雷克雅未克的哈巴音樂廳、香港大會堂、克里夫蘭的西雅雲斯音樂廳、芝加哥的樂隊音樂廳、米蘭的斯卡拉歌劇院、維也納的金色大廳等。

 

嚴氏贏得火奴魯魯交響樂團的協奏曲比賽後，與該交響樂團合作，首度以獨奏者身份擔綱演出。他曾擔任夏威夷交響樂團、克里夫蘭樂團等樂團的小提琴手。他曾參與克里夫蘭樂團的巡迴演出，到訪紐約市、芝加哥、布明頓、愛俄華市、邁亞美，以及歐洲多個重要城市，包括巴黎、米蘭、布魯塞爾、盧森堡、科隆、慕尼黑、維也納等。

 

嚴氏亦熱衷於室樂演奏，曾與茱莉亞弦樂四重奏、愛默森弦樂四重奏、聖羅倫斯弦樂四重奏、太平洋弦樂四重奏、英弦樂四重奏的成員合作演出，亦曾與克里夫蘭樂團、紐約管弦樂團的成員演出室內樂。他曾參與演出室樂藝術節的國家包括加拿大（班夫及多倫多夏季音樂節）、中國、捷克、丹麥、冰島及美國。最近與愛默森弦樂四重奏成員在卡奈基音樂廳中演出。

 

嚴氏曾以 Collegium Musicum Hong Kong 客席音樂總監身份與世界知名的琵琶演奏家吳蠻合作，在香港大會堂中演出，負責擔任指揮和小提琴手。

 

嚴氏曾為作品作世界首演，在美國及歐洲的音樂節中演出。最近他為香港歷史博物館策劃一系列以絲綢之路為主題的音樂會，委約和首演米高–湯瑪士‧富奈（火奴魯魯）、葉浩堃（香港）和姚晨（北京）的小提琴獨奏作品。他曾參與紐約當代室樂合奏團和香港創樂團的音樂會。

 

嚴氏曾於石溪大學、克里夫蘭音樂學院附屬中學教授小提琴和室內樂；亦在 Interlochen暑期藝術營、法提康室樂音樂節、羅斯摩爾音樂節中擔任導師；並在美國、丹麥、冰島、香港、臺灣和中國主持大師班和工作坊。

 

嚴氏畢業於克里夫蘭音樂學院，師隨大衛‧ 愛德嘉夫和威廉‧ 浦西爾，連續兩年獲得該學院的米堯演奏比賽首獎。在學期間，曾隨卡雲尼弦樂四重奏以及克里夫蘭弦樂四重奏的彼得‧ 沙拉夫學習。其後嚴氏入讀石溪大學，隨菲臘‧ 薩沙、珍妮花‧ 費殊、夏佳‧ 沙函學習小提琴、愛默森弦樂四重奏學習室內樂演奏，取得音樂藝術博士學位。

 

嚴氏現任香港浸會大學音樂系助理教授。