Concert 24 April 2026

West Kilbride Village Hall 7.30 pm

We welcome one of the world’s leading viola performers, Milena Simović, accompanied by acclaimed pianist Jung Eun Séverine Kim.

Equally at home as a violinist and violist, Serbian Milena Simović is enjoying an illustrious international career of concerto, recital and chamber music performances. Acclaimed for her work in Europe, Asia and America, Milena has performed alongside some of the most established personalities of today’s music scene. Milena’s concerts have been broadcast live on BBC Radio 3, Medici TV, Rai Uno in Italy, and her performances praised as “…exceptionally delivered … charged with brilliant combination of operatic quality, which was jaw-dropping at times”, “seductive and exciting…with rare artistic sensibility”. Milena holds a professorship at the Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance in London.

South Korean pianist Jung Eun Séverine Kim has won prizes in many international competitions and performed in prestigious venues including Concertgebouw Amsterdam, the Laeiszhalle in Hamburg and Seoul Arts Center. As a soloist she has performed with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra and the Göttingen Symphony Orchestra and has been invited to perform at many important festivals including the Seoul Symphony Festival and International Young Masters Piano Festival. Her performances have been broadcast live by radio stations such as Deutschlandfunk, NDR and Classic FM.​ She was recently awarded first prize and the Audience Prize at the James Mottram International Piano Competition in Manchester.