Kim Bredehoft
Longmont, CO

Kim Bredehoft is 14 years old and has been playing the Cello for nine years. She studies the Cello with Jim Fittz, a professor at the University of Northern Colorado, and she is a home-schooled eight grader.

Kim has won first place three times in the Kiwanis Stars of Tomorrow Show. She has played in Kids for Bach, Bach for Kids and also at nursing and retirement homes. In 2000 she played in the finals of the Sinfonia of Colorado Young Soloists Competition and in the summer of 2001 she performed on tour with the Boulder Youth Symphony in England, France, and Italy.

Kim is in the "Colorado Fourteeners," a trio of musicians from the Boulder Youth Symphony. Kim is the cellist of the trio, Annie Daigle plays violin and Francesco Lecce-Chong plays piano.

Kim was the Boulder Youth Symphony's 2000-2001 concerto competition winner. She performed the first movement of the Dvorak Cello Concert in B minor in the BYS May 2001 concert. She is currently principal cellist of the Boulder Youth Symphony.

Kim loves playing many many composors but a few of her favorites are Lalo, Shostakovitch, Dvorak and Kabelevsky.