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Juliette
Kang
Violin
Canadian violinist Juliette Kang is celebrated for her interpretive insight and technical mastery. Her solo engagements have included the San Francisco Symphony conducted by Michael Tilson Thomas, l'Orchestre National de France conducted by Sir Yehudi Menuhin, the Baltimore Symphony, Omaha Symphony, Syracuse Symphony, and every major orchestra in Canada. Overseas she has performed with the Vienna Chamber Orchestra, the Singapore Symphony, the Hong Kong Philharmonic, and the KBS Symphony Orchestra in Seoul. She has also given recitals in Paris at the Theatre du Chatelet, in Tokyo at Suntory Hall, in Boston at the Gardner Museum, and in New York at the 92nd Street Y and Frick Museum. As gold medallist of the 1994 International Violin Competition of Indianapolis, she was presented at Carnegie Hall in a recital that was recorded live and released on the Samsung/Nices label. She has also recorded two discs for CBC Records, one of which features the Schumann Violin Concerto with the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra. Her repertoire includes new music, having given the premiere in Mexico of the John Adams violin concerto, and commissioned and recorded a work by Canadian composer Marjan Mozetich.
In 2003 she was appointed Assistant Concertmaster of the Boston Symphony, after two seasons with the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra.
She has been involved with chamber music since studying at the Curtis Institute. Festivals she has participated in include Bravo! Colorado, Marlboro, Moab (Utah), Skaneateles (New York), and
Spoleto USA. In New York she has performed with the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, at the Mostly Mozart Festival with cellist husband Thomas Kraines, and at the Bard Music Festival.
After receiving a Bachelor of Music degree from Curtis as a student of Jascha Brodsky, she earned a Master of Music degree at the Juilliard School, where her teachers were Dorothy Delay and Robert Mann. She was a winner at age 13 of the 1989 Young Concert Artists Auditions, as well as receiving first prize at the Menuhin Violin Competition of Paris in 1992.
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