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Bomi Kim, currently serving as an assistant professor of choral conducting & director of choral activities at Yonsei University in Seoul, Korea, has extinguish accomplishments as a conductor, a teacher, and an administrator. In 2012, she became the choir master of the Vienna Boys’ Choir not only as the first female, but also as the first Asian choir master in its rich history.

She held the position until she moved back to Korea in 2016. She toured various countries with the Vienna Boy’s Choir and conducted in numerous concert halls. She served as a main organist and a choir master at the Crosschurch (Kreuzkirche) in Regensburg and also worked as a music teacher at the Music School Regensburg.

She was a member and music coach of the Arnold Schoenberg Choir from 2007 to 2015, and with same choir she worked as an opera choir master at the Theater an der Wien. Among significant career highlights, she won the Ort- nerpreis which is awarded to the best choral conductor in Austria in 2013. She is currently a music director/conductor of World Vision Children’s Choir Korea, Vocal Ensemble “The Singers”, and Saemoonan Presbyterian Church Seraphim Choir in Seoul. She received her bachelor of music degree in choral conducting from Yonsei University.

After studying church music at Regensburg in Bavaria, she moved to Vienna and received her master of music degree in choral conducting, vocal music and Gregorian chant from the University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna. She also studied in a doctoral program at the University of Vienna where she majored in Gregorian chant and music theory.