Germany-based Kazakhstani violinist Roman Kim will play Beethoven’s “Violin Sonata No. 5 in F Major,” Gounod’s “The Jewel Song,” Paganini’s “Cantabile,” “La Campanella,” Bellini’s “Casta Diva,” Tartini’s “Le Trille du Diable,” Verdi’s “Ah, Forse e Lui” and two pieces composed by Kim himself.

    Kim delights audiences with outstanding virtuosity, unrestrained energy and artistic sensitivity. He cares little for conventions or expectations, instead preferring to rediscover the Romantic repertory for himself and his audience.

    He specializes in the major works by Glazunov, Tchaikovsky, Sibelius, Brahms and Mendelssohn, but his most important inspiration is the life and work of legendary violinist Niccolo Paganini — to whom the young virtuoso/composer has been favorably compared. His debut with the Philharmonie Cologne caused the Koelner Stadt Anzeiger to exclaim: “Kim demonstrated a witchcraft, which made the visitors of the Cologne Philharmonie jump from their chairs. ... No one else could create more varied sounds and extravagances in five minutes.”

    A further inspiration for Kim is the legendary rock guitarist Jimi Hendrix, whose innovations continue to spur Kim to look beyond stylistic horizons and search for unheard of sounds through unconventional means.

    Kim studied at the Central Music School in Moscow in 2000, supported by a grant from the Mstislav Rostropovich Foundation. In 2007 he began studies with Maxim Vengerov and has since attended master classes with Midori Goto, Lewis Kaplan, Miriam Fried and Gidon Kremer.

    At the age of 16, Kim was admitted to the Cologne Academy of Music, where he studied composition. In 2012 he won first prize at the 28th International Music Competition Valsesia Musica. After taking first prize at the Cologne International Music Competition, he made his German orchestral debut with the esteemed West German Radio Orchestra. In 2013, WDR 3 TonArt featured Kim in a one-hour radio-broadcast. Among his compositions are “Three Romances for Violin and Piano,” “I Brindisi,” and transcriptions of Bach’s “Badinerie” and “Air.”

    Time: 8 p.m., Nov. 12

    Tickest: 80-480 yuan

    Booking: 400-185-8666

    Venue: Nanshan Cultural and Sports Center, 2106 Nanshan Boulevard, Nanshan District (南山区南山大道2106号南山文体中心)

    Metro: Luobao Line, Taoyuan Station (桃园站), Exit B(SD News)