Remembering Anna Lucia Kim, 1994-2018 ๐ฏ
With a heavy heart, we mourn the loss of a member of the Primo family. Our intern Anna Lucia Kim was tragically killed in a car accident in Berrian County, Michigan on Friday, November 30, 2018. She was a recent graduate of Andrews University and lived near the campus in Berrian Springs, where she was interning remotely for Primo Artists for the Fall 2018 semester. Her passion, positive spirit and verve for life and her work was an inspiration to us and all those around her.
Born in Korea, Anna was unfailingly diligent, committed and enthusiastic in her work for Primo, which commenced in September 2018. The highlight of her internship was when she met and spent time with pianist Seong-Jin Cho at his Chicago recital debut on October 26. In addition to being a gifted vocalist and bilingual in English and Korean, Anna was a talented photographer. That day she took great pleasure in photographing Seong-Jin at Mandel Hall in his rehearsal and performance. Many fans of Seong-Jin appreciated the photos she took and shared online, and it was a special honor that she cherished.
Prior to interning with Primo Artists, Anna spent Summer 2018 as an intern for the Heifetz International Music Institute in Virginia, where she took care of the logistics and hospitality for guest artists and institute participants. At the Institute, she had the honor of meeting many esteemed artists including pianist Rohan De Silva, collaborator to Itzhak Perlman. She told Mr. De Silva that it was a dream for her to work for Primo Artists and that conversation was a catalyst to her applying for an internship with our company.
While Anna interned at Primo, she simultaneously worked at the Grand Rapids Symphony where she was a Development/Administrative Intern. She completed her internship with the orchestra on November 16, 2018 and had future aspirations to work in the music industry in the States or her native Korea.
Anna was a devout Christian and strongly principled young woman. She took great pleasure in sharing her musical talents with her local church congregation. Her home church, Highland View Church, have organized a GoFundMe donation fund for funeral expenses here.
We will miss her dearly. Rest In Peace, sweet Anna.
ํ๋ฆฌ๋ชจ ์ํฐ์ค์ธ ๋ ๋ฌด๊ฑฐ์ด ๋ง์์ผ๋ก ํ๋ฆฌ๋ชจ์ ์ผ์์ด ์ธ์์ ๋ ๋ฌ์์ ์ ๋ํฉ๋๋ค. ์ ํฌ์ ์ธํด ์๋ ๋ฃจ์์ ํด์ด 2018๋ 11์ 30์ผ ๊ธ์์ผ, ๋ฏธ์๊ฑด ์ฃผ์ ๋ฒ ๋ฆฌ์ ์นด์ดํฐ์์ ์ฐจ ์ฌ๊ณ ๋ก ์ธ์์ ๋ ๋ฌ์ต๋๋ค. ์ค๋๋ฅ์ค ๋ํ๊ต๋ฅผ ์ต๊ทผ์ ์กธ์ ํ ์๋๋ ์บ ํผ์ค๊ฐ ์๋ ๋ฒ ๋ฆฌ์ ์คํ๋ง์ค ๊ทผ๊ต์ ์ด๋ฉฐ 2018๋ ๊ฐ์ ํ๊ธฐ์ ํ๋ฆฌ๋ชจ ์ํฐ์ค์ธ ๋ฅผ ์ํด ์๊ฑฐ๋ฆฌ์์ ์ธํด์ผ๋ก ๊ทผ๋ฌดํ์ต๋๋ค. ๊ทธ๋ ์ ์ด์ , ๊ธ์ ์ ์ธ ์ํผ, ์ถ๊ณผ ์ผ์ ๋ํ ์๋์ง๋ ํ๋ฆฌ๋ชจ์ ๋ชจ๋์ ์๋์ ์ฃผ๋ณ์ธ๋ค ๋ชจ๋์๊ฒ ๋ ํฐ ์๊ทน์ ์ฃผ์์ต๋๋ค.
ํ๊ตญ์์ ํ์ด๋ ์๋๋ ์ฌํด 9์๋ถํฐ ํ๋ฆฌ๋ชจ์์ ์ผํ๊ธฐ ์์ํ๋ฉฐ ๋๊ตฌ๋ณด๋ค๋ ๋ฐ์ด๋ ๊ทผ๋ฉดํจ๊ณผ ์ฑ์คํจ, ์ด์ ์ ๋ณด์ฌ์ฃผ์์ต๋๋ค. ๊ทธ๋ ๋ ํผ์๋์คํธ ์กฐ์ฑ์ง์ ์ง๋ 10์ 26์ผ ์์นด๊ณ ๋ฐ๋ท ๋ ์ฃผํ์ ์ฐธ์ํ์ฌ ์ํฐ์คํธ๋ฅผ ํ๋ฅญํ ๋ณด์ขํ์์ต๋๋ค. ๋ฐ์ด๋ ์ฑ์ ๊ฐ์ด์ ์์ด์ ํ๊ตญ์ด๋ฅผ ์ด์ค์ผ๋ก ๊ตฌ์ฌํ๋ ์๋๋ ๋งค์ฐ ํ๋ฅญํ ์ฌ์ง์๊ฐ๊ธฐ๋ ํ์ต๋๋ค. ๊ทธ ๋ ์๋๋ ์์นด๊ณ ๋งจ๋ธ ํ์์ ์์๋ ์กฐ์ฑ์ง์ ๋ฆฌํ์ค๊ณผ ๊ณต์ฐ์ ์ฌ์ง์ ๋ด์์ต๋๋ค. ์กฐ์ฑ์ง์ ๋ง์ ํฌ ๋ถ๋ค์ด ๊ทธ ์ฌ์ง๋ค์ ์ข์ํด์ฃผ์๊ณ ์จ๋ผ์ธ์ผ๋ก ๊ณต์ ํด์ฃผ์ ์ ์๋๋ ๋ชน์ ๊ธฐ๋ปํ๊ณ ์๊ด์ค๋ฌ์ํ์ต๋๋ค.
ํ๋ฆฌ๋ชจ ์ํฐ์ค์ธ ์์ ์ธํด์ญ์ ์์ํ๊ธฐ ์ ์ ์๋๋ ์ง๋ ์ฌ๋ฆ ๋ฒ์ง๋์์ ํ์ดํ์ธ ์ธํฐ๋ด์ ๋ ๋ฎค์ง ์ธ์คํฐํํธ์์ ์ธํด์ผ๋ก ๊ทผ๋ฌดํ๋ฉฐ ๊ฒ์คํธ ์ํฐ์คํธ๋ค๊ณผ ํ์ ์ฐธ๊ฐ์๋ค์ ์ฒด๋ฅ ์ ๋ฐ์ ๋ด๋นํ์ต๋๋ค. ๊ทธ๊ณณ์์ ์๋๋ ์ด์ฐจํฌ ํ๋ง์ ํผ์๋์คํธ์ธ ๋กํ ๋ ์ค๋ฐ๋ฅผ ๋น๋กฏํ ๋ง์ ์ธ๊ณ์ ์ธ ์ํฐ์คํธ๋ค์ ๋ง๋๋ ๊ธฐํ๋ฅผ ๊ฐ์ก์ต๋๋ค. ๋กํ ๋ ์ค๋ฐ๋ฅผ ๋ง๋ฌ์ ๋ ์๋๋ ํ๋ฆฌ๋ชจ์์ ์ผํ๋ ๊ฒ์ด ๊ทธ๋ ์ ๊ฟ์ด๋ผ๊ณ ๋งํ๊ณ , ๊ทธ ๋ ๋กํ ๋ ์ค๋ฐ์ ๋๋ ๋ํ๋ ๊ทธ๋ ๊ฐ ์ ํฌ ํ๋ฆฌ๋ชจ์ ์ง์์๋ฅผ ๋ด๋๋ก ๊ฒฐ์ฌํ๊ฒ ๋๋ ๊ณ๊ธฐ๊ฐ ๋์์ต๋๋ค.
ํ๋ฆฌ๋ชจ์์ ์ธํด์ ํ๋ ๋์์ ์๋๋ ๊ทธ๋๋ ๋ํผ์ฆ ์ฌํฌ๋์ ๊ธฐ๊ธ๋ชจ๊ธ/๊ฒฝ์ ๋ถ์์์์ ์ธํด์ญ๋ ๋ณํํ์์ต๋๋ค. ์ผ๋ง ์ ์ธ 11์ 16์ผ ๊ทธ๊ณณ์์์ ์ธํด์ญ์ ๋ง์น ์๋๋ ๋ฏธ๊ตญ ํน์ ๊ทธ๋ ์ ๊ณ ๊ตญ์ธ ํ๊ตญ์ ์์ ๊ณ์์ ๊ณ์ ์ผํ๊ฒ ๋ค๋ ํฌ๋ถ๋ฅผ ๊ฐ์ง๊ณ ์์์ต๋๋ค.
์๋๋ ๋ ์คํ ๊ฐ์ ๊ต ์ ์์์ผ๋ฉฐ ๊ณ ๊ฒฐํ ์ ์ ์ฌ์ฑ์ด์์ต๋๋ค. ์๋๋ ๊ทธ๋ ๊ฐ ๊ฐ์ง ์์ ์ ์ฌ๋ฅ์ ์ง์ญ ๊ตํ์์ ๋๋๋ฉฐ ํ๋ณตํดํ์ต๋๋ค.
๊ทธ๋ ์ ๊ตํ์ธ Highland View Church๋ ์ฅ๋ก๋น๋ฅผ ์ํ GoFundMe ๊ธฐ๊ธ์ ๋ง๋ จํ์ต๋๋ค. ๊ธฐ๋ถํ์๋ ค๋ฉด ์ฌ๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ํด๋ฆญํด์ฃผ์ธ์.
์ฐ๋ฆฌ๋ ๋ชจ๋ ๊ทธ๋ ๋ฅผ ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ์ ํ ๊ฒ์ ๋๋ค. ์ฐ๋ฆฌ๊ฐ ์ฌ๋ํ ์๋์ ๋ช ๋ณต์ ๋น๋๋ค.
With pianist Rohan De Silva at the Heifetz Institute, August 2018: