Juliette Kang, born in Edmonton to Korean parents, was a child prodigy who began violin lessons at age four and made her concerto debut in Montréal at seven. At age nine, she was accepted as a violin student on scholarship at the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadephia and became a student of Jascha Brodsky. By age 11, Kang had garnered international attention, winning top prizes at the 1986 Beijing International Youth Violin Competition in China. In 1989, at age 13, Kang became the youngest artist to win the Young Concert Artists International Auditions in New York.
Kang has since performed with every major orchestra in Canada, including the Toronto, Montréal and Edmonton symphony orchestras, as well as with the National Arts Centre Orchestra in Ottawa. Internationally, she has performed with the San Francisco, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Detroit and Indianapolis orchestras, as well as with the Boston Pops, Hong Kong Philharmonic, Vienna Chamber Orchestra, Singapore Symphony, Czech Philharmonic, and the Orchestre National de France. Since 2005, Kang has held the position of first associate concertmaster with the Philadelphia Orchestra and plays second violin.
Kang's repertoire ranges from baroque to contemporary, including the works of Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, Mendelssohn, Schumann, Wieniawski, Ravel, Poulenc, Marjan Mozetich and Witold Lutoslawski. She has performed some of the most challenging repertoire for violin, including Beethoven's Violin Concerto, performed with the Reno Chamber Orchestra, and William Walton's Violin Concerto, performed with the Edmonton Symphony Orchestra.
Learn more: Juliette Kang in The Canadian Encyclopedia
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