The Center for Gifted Young Musicians
at Temple Music Prep
Master Class Series
featuring Juliette Kang, violin
Ms. Kang will be working with CGYM Students during
the class, including PMAY Artist Myles Bell.
Appointed first associate concertmaster of The Philadelphia Orchestra in 2005, Canadian violinist Juliette Kang enjoys an active and varied career. Previously assistant concertmaster of the Boston Symphony and a member of the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, Ms. Kang’s solo engagements have included the San Francisco Symphony, l’Orchestre National de France, the Baltimore Symphony, the Boston Pops, and every major orchestra in Canada. Internationally she has performed with the Czech Philharmonic, the Vienna Chamber Orchestra,the Hong Kong Philharmonic, and the KBS Symphony in Seoul. She has given recitals in Philadelphia, Paris, Tokyo, and Boston. In 1994 she won first prize of the 1994 International Violin Competition of Indianapolis and was presented at New York's Carnegie Hall in a recital that was recorded live and released on CD. She has also recorded the Schumann and Wieniawski violin concertos with the Vancouver Symphony.
She is regularly featured as a soloist with the Philadelphia Orchestra, having performed concertos with Music Director Yannick Nezet-Seguin, Gianandrea Noseda, Susanna Malkki, and Christoph Eschenbach.
Ms. Kang has been involved with chamber music since attending the Marlboro Festival. Festivals she has participated in include Bravo! Vail Colorado, Bridgehampton, Kingston (Rhode Island), Moab Music (Utah), and Spoleto USA. In New York she has performed with the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center; at the Mostly Mozart Festival with her husband, cellist Thomas Kraines; and at the Bard Music Festival.
After graduating from Curtis at age 15 as a student of Jascha Brodsky, Ms. Kang earned a Master of Music degree at the Juilliard School, studying with Dorothy Delay and Robert Mann, first violinist and founder of the Juilliard Quartet. She was a winner of the 1989 Young Concert Artists Auditions, and she subsequently received first prize at the Menuhin Violin Competition of Paris in 1992. She serves on the Central Board of Trustees at Philadelphia's Settlement Music School, one of the oldest and largest community schools of the arts in the country, founded in 1908 and having served more than 300,000 students since.
The Center for Gifted Young Musicians Master Class Series has been made possible, in part, by a generous donation from The Kessler Fund.
