Clara-Jumi Kang
Violin
Born to Korean parents and raised in Germany, Clara-Jumi Kang is internationally renowned for her musicality and virtuosity. Her many awards and accolades include first prizes at the Indianapolis, Sendai and Seoul violin competitions.
She is Artist-in-Residence with the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra this season. Other recent and forthcoming highlights include festival appearances at the BBC Proms, Hollywood Bowl and debuts at the Salzburg Festival and with the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, West–Eastern Divan Orchestra, Atlanta and Shanghai Symphony orchestras, National Arts Centre Orchestra, Ottawa and the Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra. She returns to the Israel and Seoul Philharmonic orchestras and gives a recital tour across Korea, as well as at the Boulez Saal in Berlin, Hong Kong City Hall, and venues in Rome and Turin.
Since making her concerto debut with Hamburg Symphony Orchestra at the age of five, she has regularly worked with leading conductors, including Paavo Järvi, François-Xavier Roth, Stéphane Denève, Vasily Petrenko, Daniel Harding, Jaap van Zweden, Kazuki Yamada, Eva Ollikainen, Ryan Bancroft, Juanjo Mena, Lahav Shani, Thierry Fischer, Charles Dutoit, Christian Reif, Anja Bihlmaier, Kevin John Edusei and Long Yu. In 2012 she was selected as one of the top 100 ‘Most promising and influential people of Korea’ by the Korean newspaper Dong-A Times and was awarded the Daewon Music Award; in 2015 she was named Kumho Musician of the Year.
Her discography includes Modern Solo, an album of Brahms and Schumann with Yeol Eum Son and a cycle of Beethoven sonatas with Sunwook Kim. She also regularly appears at chamber music festivals and collaborates with renowned musicians including Janine Jansen, Gidon Kremer and Mischa Maisky.
Clara-Jumi Kang took up the violin at the age of three and studied with Zakhar Bron, Dorothy DeLay and Christoph Poppen, as well as receiving guidance from Daniel Barenboim.
She plays the ‘Thunis’ Stradivarius from 1702, on generous loan from KIA.
Clara-Jumi Kang
Ffidil
Cafodd Clara-Jumi Kang ei geni i rieni o Korea a’i magu yn yr Almaen, ac mae hi’n yn enwog yn rhyngwladol am ei dawn gerddorol a’i meistrolaeth. Mae ei gwobrau a’i hanrhydeddau niferus yn cynnwys y wobr gyntaf yng nghystadlaethau ffidil Indianapolis, Sendai a Seoul.
Y tymor hwn, mae hi’n Artist Preswyl gyda Cherddorfa Ffilharmonig Frenhinol Stockholm. Mae ei huchafbwyntiau diweddar eraill, a’r rhai sydd ganddi ar y gweill, yn cynnwys: ymddangos mewn gwyliau yn yr Hollywood Bowl a Phroms y BBC, ymddangos am y tro cyntaf yng Ngŵyl Salzburg, a pherfformio am y tro cyntaf gydag Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, Cerddorfa West-Eastern Divan, Cerddorfeydd Symffoni Atlanta a Shanghai, Canolfan Gelfyddydau Genedlaethol Ottawa, a Cherddorfa Ffilharmonig yr Iseldiroedd. Mae’n dychwelyd at gerddorfeydd Ffilharmonig Israel a Seoul ac yn perfformio datganiadau ar draws Korea, yn y Boulez Saal yn Berlin, yn Neuadd y Ddinas Hong Kong, ac yn Rhufain a Turin.
Ers perfformio concerto am y tro cyntaf gyda Cherddorfa Symffoni Hamburg pan oedd hi’n bump oed, mae hi wedi gweithio gydag arweinwyr blaenllaw, gan gynnwys Paavo Järvi, François Xavier-Roth, Stéphane Denève, Vasily Petrenko, Daniel Harding, Jaap van Zweden, Kazuki Yamada, Eva Ollikainen, Ryan Bancroft, Juanjo Mena, Lahav Shani, Thierry Fischer, Charles Dutoit, Christian Reif, Anja Bihlmaier, Kevin John Edusei a Long Yu. Yn 2012, cafodd ei dewis yn un o’r ‘100 o bobl fwyaf addawol a dylanwadol o Korea’ gan bapur newydd y Dong-A Times, a dyfarnwyd Gwobr Cerddoriaeth Daewon iddi. Yn 2015, cafodd ei henwi’n Gerddor y Flwyddyn Kumho.
Mae ei recordiadau’n cynnwys Modern Solo, albwm o weithiau Brahms a Schumann gyda Yeol-Eum Son, a chylch o sonatau Beethoven gyda Sunwook Kim. Mae hi hefyd yn ymddangos yn rheolaidd mewn gwyliau cerddoriaeth siambr ac yn cydweithio â cherddorion enwog, gan gynnwys Janine Jansen, Gidon Kremer a Mischa Maisky.
Dechreuodd Clara-Jumi Kang chwarae’r ffidil pan oedd yn dair oed ac astudiodd gyda Zakhar Bron, Dorothy DeLay a Christoph Poppen, yn ogystal â chael arweiniad gan Daniel Barenboim.
Mae hi’n chwarae’r Stradivarius ‘Thunis’ o 1702, sydd ar fenthyg yn hael gan KIA.
