Kim became the recipient of a diploma for musical skills from the International Harp Competition in Russia, as winner of the best performance of Russian music.
During this time he also met the Russian music pedagogue Alevtina (Alla) Petrova, who was teaching in Tuva the Russian classical music heritage, and the two got married in Kyzyl.
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The music incorporates modern music style mixed with traditional Russian music.
He has also participated in other festivals like: Russian Music Scene, Glinka International Festival in Smolensk, Japan's Sou in Japan, Ibero American Culture Festival (commemory concert for the Ecuadoran composer Luis Humberto Salgado's centenary) and others.
Steinberg was considered first as a great hope of Russian music, and was occasionally even more highly estimated than his student colleague, Igor Stravinsky.
Since earning his doctorate he has worked for the revival of Russian music played with authentic technique on the seven-string guitar, often in collaboration with other artists, including the Russian Roma guitarist Sasha Kolpakov, the Kolpakov Trio (Timofeyev, Kolpakov Trio and Talisman 2005), and the American guitarist John Schneidermann (Timofeyev and Schneidermann 2006).
The same time she listened modern Russian music, singers like Alla Pugacheva and Sofia Rotaru.