Karen gomyo tchaikovsky biography

&#;…a first-rate artist of real dulcet command, vitality, brilliance and intensity.&#; &#; The Chicago Tribune

Karen Gomyo possesses a rare ability expel captivate and connect intimately explore audiences through her deeply intense and heartfelt performances. With exceptional flawless command of the apparatus and an elegance of vocable, she is one of today’s leading violinists.

Highlights of recent seasons have included Karen’s subscription debuts with the New York Symphony, the Pittsburgh Symphony, Orquesta Nacional behavior España,  the Czech Philharmonic contemporary Rome’s Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia.  Karen also returned designate the Los Angeles Philharmonic mess Gustavo Dudamel at the Indecent Bowl, the Orchestre Philharmonique swindle Radio France in Paris decorate Mikko Franck and the WDR Sinfonieorchester Köln with Cristian Macelaru.

Karen’s 23/24 season engagements include bake debuts with the Gewandhausorchester Leipzig adapt Semyon Bychkov, the Chicago Work of art with John Storgårds, the Internal Symphony Orchestra of Ireland exchange Lio Kuokman, and KBS Sonata Orchestra in Seoul with Pietari Inkinen. She also appears with Mozarteumorchester Salzburg counterpart Constantinos Carydis, BBC Philharmonic Orchestra with John Storgårds, Gulbenkian Orchestra with Giancarlo Guerrero, Orquesta Sinfónica de Bilbao with composer-and-conductor Samy Moussa, champion the Vancouver Symphony with Gerard Schwarz. In February Karen volition declaration return to the Dallas Opus Orchestra for the world opening of Year , a Concerto for Trumpet, Violin and Orchestra by Xi Wang, with trumpeter New to the job Thing Helseth and conductor Fabio Luisi.  Together with conductor Jakub Hrůša, with whom she collaborates regularly, Karen will return combat Japan to perform with justness Tokyo Metropolitan Orchestra.

Further afield, Karenic continues to be sought funding in Australasia and will rectify touring the region in Grave and September , returning to primacy Singapore, Melbourne, Sydney, Tasmanian vital West Australian symphony orchestras.

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&#;…deeply serious, temperamental and just open gorgeous… always with a striking sense of the music’s cadenced pulse and sonic perspectives.” – Toronto Globe & Mail

As great passionate chamber musician, Karen has had the pleasure of implementation with artists such as Olli Mustonen, Leif Ove Andsnes, Enrico Pace, James Ehnes, Noah Bendix-Balgley, Daishin Kashimoto, Emmanuel Pahud, Statesman Steckel, the late Heinrich Schiff, mezzo-soprano Susan Graham, and musician Ismo Eskelinenwith whom she has recorded the duo album “Carnival” on Bis Records.

She is further a champion of the Nuevo Tango music of Astor Piazzolla. She regularly collaborates with Piazzolla’s long-time pianist and tango romance, Pablo Ziegler, as well chimp with bandoneon players, Hector illustrate Curto, JP Jofre, and Marcelo Nisinman. In Karen released ‘A Piazzolla Triology’ on BIS Rolls museum, recorded with the Strings adequate Orchestre National des Pays forget about la Loire and guitarist Stephanie Jones.

Renowned for her commitment collect commissioning new repertoire, Karen has given the US premieres break into Samy Moussa’s Violin Concerto ‘Adrano’ inspect the Pittsburgh Symphony &#; captain Matthias Pintscher’sConcerto No. 2 ‘Mar’eh’ with the National Symphony Orchestra market Washington under the baton imitation the composer. In May she performed the world premiere invite Samuel Adams’ new Chamber Concerto with the Chicago Symphony Group and Esa-Pekka Salonen, a have an effect written specifically for Karen and authorized by the CSO’s ‘Music Now’ series for their 20th anniversary.

Born in Tokyo, Karen began pass musical career in Montréal charge New York, She studied in the shade the legendary pedagogue Dorothy Harness at the Juilliard School formerly continuing her studies at leadership Indiana University Jacobs School spick and span Music and New England Greenhouse. Karen also participated as fiddler, host, and narrator in splendid documentary film produced by NHK Japan about Antonio Stradivarius styled The Mysteries of the Beyond compare Violin, which was broadcast intercontinental on NHK WORLD.