A native of Edmonton, Canada, Juliette Kang came to Philadelphia from the Boston Symphony Orchestra where she served as assistant concertmaster from 2003 to 2005.  Prior to that, she was a member of the first violin section of the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra from 2001 to 2003.  During the 1999-2000 season, she was principal second violin with the Kennedy Center Opera Orchestra..

Ms. Kang was the gold medalist in the 1994 International Violin Competition of Indianapolis.  In 1989, at age 13, she was a Young Concert Artists Audition winner, leading to recitals at New York City’s 92nd Street Y and at the Kennedy Center’s Terrace Theater in Washington, D.C.  She won the Grand Prize at the Menuhin Violin Competition in Paris in 1992.  Ms. Kang has been awarded numerous Canadian prizes and grants, including the Sylva Gelber Award of the Canada Council for the Arts, given annually to the most talented Canadian artist under age 30.  In 1994 she was profiled in the New York Times Sunday Magazine as one of 30 people under 30 “most likely to change the culture over the next 30 years.”

Ms. Kang holds a Master of Music degree from the Juilliard School, where she studied with Dorothy DeLay and Robert Mann.  She began violin studies at the age of four, and six years later she entered the Curtis Institute of Music as a student of Jascha Brodsky. 

Ms. Kang has performed chamber music at summer festivals including Marlboro, SpoletoUSA, Skaneateles, Great Lakes Chamber Music, and Mostly Mozart at Lincoln Center, where she performed the Ravel duo with her husband, cellist Thomas Kraines.  She is a frequent visitor with Mr. Kraines to the Moab Music Festival, the Next Generation Festival with Awadagin Pratt, and the Portland Chamber Music Festival. 

Her solo engagements have included appearances with the orchestras of San Francisco, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Detroit, and Indianapolis, as well as with the Boston Pops, Hong Kong Philharmonic, the Singapore Symphony, the Vienna Chamber Orchestra, the Czech Philharmonic, and the Orchestre National de France.  In her native Canada, she has soloed with the orchestras of Toronto, Winnipeg, Montreal, Quebec City, Calgary, Edmonton, and the National Arts Centre Orchestra of Ottawa.

An accomplished recitalist, Ms. Kang has performed in Paris at the Théâtre du Châtelet, in Tokyo at Suntory Hall, in Boston at the Gardner Museum, and in New York at the Frick Museum.  In 1996 her recital at Carnegie Hall was recorded and released on the Samsung/Nices label.  She has also recorded on the CBC label.

Photo: Chris Lee