Alison Bazala Kim

Cello

Internationally, Alison Bazala Kim has toured Jamaica, the Cayman Islands, Macedonia, the Slovak Republic, Kosovo and Bulgaria. She was the first American soloist to appear in Sarajevo after the war in Bosnia, performing at the National Theater, the Dom Armije concert hall and NATO headquarters. She later returned to Bosnia and her concerts were broadcast on television and radio. In the United States, Alison Bazala Kim has performed as a chamber musician in Miami Beach, New York City, Boston, and locally at the Washington Arts Club, Frederick Community College, Hood College and the University of Maryland. She has given recitals in Houston, Miami Beach and Boston and has performed at the Embassies of Bangladesh and Romania, the State Department and the Ambassador’s Club. As a soloist, she performed with the National Repertory Orchestra in Colorado, the Albanian String Orchestra and with the University of Maryland Symphony Orchestra. As a member of the New World Symphony in Florida, she performed in Carnegie, Alice Tully and Avery Fisher Halls in New York, the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., and in Brazil, Argentina, Monaco, and Israel. She recorded with the NWS on the Argo-Decca label. Locally, she served as the Associate Principal Cellist of the Maryland Symphony Orchestra. She currently plays with the Annapolis, Apollo and Alexandria Symphony Orchestras. Dr. Bazala Kim serves as the President of the Maryland and Washington D.C. Chapter of the American String Teachers Association. She previously taught at Anne Arundel Community College, Hood College, the Naval Academy and Washington Adventist University. Dr. Bazala Kim holds degrees in Cello Performance from the New England Conservatory of Music, Rice University and the University of Maryland. She also studied at the Eastman School of Music. She studied with David Hardy, Peter Wiley, David Soyer, Paul Katz and Fritz Magg.