AASP Wednesday Lunch Series with Ariana Kim

About this event

Join us for our Wednesday Lunch Series, featuring guest speakers from Cornell's faculty and staff as well as the surrounding community. Enjoy an informal discussion where you can learn more about the speaker’s work or research, how they ended up doing what they are doing, current issues in higher education and the local community. A free lunch will be served.

Noted by The New York Times for giving “the proceedings an invaluable central thread of integrity and stylishness,” GRAMMY®-nominated violinist Ariana Kim made her New York recital debut at Carnegie’s Weill Hall during her doctoral studies at Juilliard and is now a tenured violin professor at Cornell University. Recent performance highlights include an artist residency at the Minneapolis Institute of Art exploring solo violin music in total darkness, a recital at the Smithsonian in Washington, D.C., and a Bartok concerto performance at Jordan Hall in Boston. Following 6 months living in India studying Carnatic music, Ariana's forthcoming album (un)common thread exploring improvisation from Mozart to Macedonia with fortepianist Roger Moseley and percussionist Shane Shanahan was released on Saffron Soul Records in May 2026.