Violinist “Discovery”.
- Clara Jumi Kang
With the power of the Internet, I sometimes get very excited as a result of my “discovery” of a performer whom I had not heard before; Such is the case today with violinist Clara Jumi Kang.
She was born in Mannheim, Germany to Korean parents; at age five, she began to take lessons from Valery Gradov at the Mannheim Musikhochschule in Germany. When she was seven, she moved to the United States and received a full scholarship to the Juilliard School, where she studied with Dorothy Delay.
I only located one CD of her playing. However, the following YouTube sample speaks for itself.
I see in her playing outstanding technical abilities and also a wonderful musical feeling. Furthermore there is amazing power to her playing that clearly can resonate in a large concert hall filled with listeners.
Here is 27 year – old Clara Jumi Kang in Nathan Milstein’s arrangement of Nicollo Paganini’s famous work titled ‘Paganiniana’:
See what I mean?
Oh, you want more?
Here are Yeol Eum Son, piano, and Clara Jumi Kang, violin, in Prokofiev’s violin sonata no.1, performing the 3rd and 4th movements:
http://youtu.be/Z0oJks7jccM
Tags: Clara Jumi Kang, Paganini, Prokofiev, Milstein, Dorothy Delay, Yeol Eum Son