Pauline Kim Harris Bio
Pauline Kim Harris
Pauline Kim Harris also known as PK or Pauline Kim is a boundary-defying violinist, award-winning recording artist, composer, curator, and producer. Equally at home in a concert hall or an experimental art space, she has performed across the U.S., Canada, Europe, Asia, and Australia as a soloist, collaborator, and music director.
Best known as half of the classical avant-punk duo String Noise, Pauline has also toured extensively with the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, performs regularly with leading new music ensembles in New York City, and is a member of the American Symphony Orchestra.
A fierce advocate for innovation, Pauline’s creative work lives at the intersection of sound, movement, and visual art blending electronics, media, film, and dance into powerful interdisciplinary experiences She has premiered and recorded works by visionary composers including Alvin Lucier, John Zorn, Philip Glass, Tyondai Braxton, Steve Reich, Catherine Lamb, Du Yun, and George Lewis, among many others Her collaborations have extended to dance, including featured performances for choreographers David Parker (The Bang Group), Pam Tanowitz, and John Heginbotham
Her debut solo album, Heroine (Sono Luminus, 2019) a bold reimagining of Bach’s Chaconne alongside Ockeghem’s Deo Gratias was followed by Wild at Heart in 2021, further cementing her status as a genre-fluid artist of rare vision Her recordings appear on labels including Decca, Tzadik, Northern Spy, Nonesuch, New Focus, Unseen Worlds, Cold Blue, and more Her performances have been broadcast on PBS, BBC, NPR, WQXR, WNYC, WKCR, and WFMU
Pauline serves as Executive Director of Music at the Anthology (MATA Festival) and was the inaugural Music Director for the Bill T Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company She has held residencies at the Atlantic Center for the Arts, The Mabel Residency, The Stone – New School, and was awarded the EtM Con Edison Composer Residency at Bloomingdale School of Music In 2021, she was commissioned to compose the score for Coco Fusco’s Your Eyes Will Be An Empty Word, featured at the Whitney Biennial