Lim Ji-young is a South Korean violinist, winner of the first prize in the 2015 Queen Elisabeth Competition in Brussels. She studies with Nam-Yun Kim at Korea National University of Arts.
Lim was born in Seoul, South Korea. After placing third in the International Violin Competition Henri Marteau in 2011, she won the Ishikawa Music Award in Japan in 2012 as well as the Concerto Competition at the International Great Mountains Music Festival in Korea. In 2013, she won first prize at the International Eurasia Music Competition in Japan as well as the MIMC prize at the International Violin Competition of Indianapolis, where she was additionally awarded the special Mozart Prize.
Lim has performed in the United States, Canada, Japan, Korea, Germany and Switzerland, in addition to Belgium, with, among others, Maxim Vengerov and Joell Smirnoff. In 2015 she debuted with the Carmel Symphony Orchestra in Indianapolis.