Karen Kang, Cello
Performances by Karen Kang
| Composer | Title | Date | Action |
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| Felix Mendelssohn | String Quartet No. 2 in A Minor, Op. 13 | 11/17/2011 |
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| Franz Joseph Haydn | String Quartet in D Major, Opus 76, No. 5 | 11/16/2011 |
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| Felix Mendelssohn | Piano Trio No. 1 in D Minor, Op. 49 | 11/17/2011 |
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| Leon Kirchner | Piano Trio (1954) | 10/17/2011 |
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| Robert Schumann | 5 Stücke im Volkston for Cello and Piano, Op. 102 | 07/07/2010 |
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| Frédéric Chopin | Polonaise Brillante in C major Op.3 for Cello and Piano | 07/15/2011 |
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| Ludwig van Beethoven | 12 Variations in G Major on "See the Conqu'ring Hero Comes" | 07/04/2010 |
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Karen Kang, Cello
Biography
Winner of the Holland America Music Society Competition, Korean born Canadian cellist Karen Kang is an avid soloist and chamber musician. Karen has performed in numerous venues including the Mozarteum Recital Hall in Salzburg, Mozartsaal in Hamburg, and gave recitals at the Chicago Cultural Centre as part of the 'Dame Myra Hess Concert Series'. She can be heard on Chicago's 'live from WFMT', which was recorded and broadcasted nationwide on 98.7 WFMT-FM. Her Summer festival performances include Ravinia Steans Institute for young artists, Orford Arts Centre, Banff Centre for the Arts, National Young Artist Program, Holland Music Sessions and Internationale Sommerakademie 'Mozarteum'.
Equally as impressive in her young career, Karen has garnered top prizes in numerous competition prizes, awards, and scholarships, including first prizes at the Kiwanis Music Festival Provincials, Canadian Music Competition Nationals, Johann Strauss Scholarship Foundation, Hudson Valley String Competition, Concours de L’Orchestra Symphonique de Montreal, and in 2010 she was a finalist at the International Stepping Stone Competition.
An avid chamber musician, Karen performed the Mendelssohn Octet with violinist Pinchas Zukerman during the 2004 National Young Artist Program in Ottawa. In 2008, her NEC String Quartet traveled to Washington D.C. in collaboration with the Borromeo String Quartet and Grammy Award-winning Parker Quartet, for an artistic residency and workshop at the Library of Congress. To advance the musical tradition, she collaborated with composers Kaija Saariaho and Allan Gordon Bell. Until recently, Karen was a cellist of the Saguaro Piano Trio, where they resided in Hamburg while giving performances in Germany, and worked closely with cellist Niklas Schmidt at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater Hamburg.
Karen has appeared in masterclasses with some of the most distinguished musicians today including, Natalia Gutman, Peter Wispelwey, Bernard Greenhouse, Pinchas Zukerman, Gary Hoffman, Frans Helmerson, Lluis Claret, Lynn Harrell, and Julius Berger. As a full scholarship student, Karen holds a Bachelors Degree in Cello Performance from the New England Conservatory of Music under the tutelage of Laurence Lesser, and a Masters Degree from Northwestern University where she studied with Hans Jørgen Jensen.