THE NEW YORK TIMES
“…the alternating alarms and chirps, both chilling and playful, in “Abyss of the Birds,” a lengthy solo played with inexhaustible virtuosity by Ms. Kim.”

CHICAGO TRIBUNE
"Clarinetist Yoonah Kim...won the 2016 Concert Artists Guild International Competition — the first solo clarinetist to do so in nearly 30 years."

THE STRAD
"...rhythmic vivacity and ... great sensitivity "

OBERON'S GROVE
"Yoonah Kim took all the score's demands in stride, displaying great subtlety as she fined her clarinet-voice down to a thread... virtuoso performance"

BROADSTREET REVIEW
"Kim’s performance of the third movement, “Abyss of birds,” for solo clarinet, explores instrumental possibilities I scarcely knew existed. Has a clarinetist ever held a note that long before, or with greater effect? At one point, I felt as though a sonorous note entered my right ear, transformed the grey matter in my brain, and exited in a blaze of fire through the left. This isn’t music: it’s chemical transformation."

TIMES UNION
"...endless silken tone... full and ringing clarinet sound"

OBERON'S GROVE
"...captured the oscillating clarinet...with a clear, mysterious sound - managing to shade the lower register parts of the work with a dusty timbre... added flair to the jazzy sections making them come to life..."

YOUR OBSERVER SARASOTA, FL
"Clarinetist Yoonah Kim ... gave a colorful reading of four sections from Stravinsky's 'L'Histoire du Soldat,' that was so filled with swagger, we hardly missed the narration."