Hae-Sun Kang - violin
Hae-Sun Kang's supernatural stamina and precision, together with her spotless intonation, an exquisite, crystal-clear beauty of sound and a phenomenal musical creativity, are a revelation for me.
Unsuk Chin
Hae-Sun Kang is one of the most sought-after violinists on the international contemporary music scene. She is highly appreciated by audiences and composers alike, as evidenced by the ever-growing number of works written specifically for her.
Hae-Sun Kang began playing the violin at the age of three in her home country of South Korea. At the age of 15 she moved to Paris to continue her studies at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique, where she herself now teaches. She received further inspiration from Yfrah Neaman, Franco Gulli, Wolfgang Schneiderhahn, Herman Krebbers, Josef Gingold and Yehudi Menuhin. She has won prizes at several international violin competitions, including Rodolfo Lipizer (Italy), the ARD Music Competition Munich, Carl Flesch (London) and Yehudi Menuhin (Paris). In 1993 she became concertmaster of the Orchestre de Paris, where her playing caught the attention of Pierre Boulez. In the following year, she became solo violinist with the Ensemble InterContemporain.
Hae-Sun Kang has premiered many important works for her instrument, including violin concertos by Pascal Dusapin, Ivan Fedele and Michael Jarrell (Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio-France, Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra and Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra). She is regularly invited to perform the violin concerto of fellow Korean Unsuk Chin. She has played the violin concertos of Matthias Pintscher and Beat Furrer with the Orchestre National de Belgique and the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin. In 1997, she premiered Pierre Boulez' Anthèmes 2 for solo violin and electronics in Donaueschingen. Since then she has performed this work, which she also recorded for Deutsche Grammophon, in concert halls and at festivals all over the world, including Salzburg, Helsinki, the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, the Cité de la Musique Paris and New York's Carnegie Hall.
In her solo recitals Hae-Sun Kang frequently presents new pieces written especially for her, most recently Beat Furrer's new work for solo violin (Ultraschall Festival Berlin, 2007), Unsuk Chin's Double blind? (Théâtre des Bouffes du Nord Paris, 2007) and - in two solo concerts in the series Festspiel+ at the Munich Opera Festival 2008 - Georges Aperghis' solo work The Only Line.
In the current season, Hae-Sun Kang will again take the stage in orchestral concerts as well as solo recitals. Under the direction of Pierre Boulez, she will appear at New York's Lincoln Center performing Ligeti's Violin Concerto. She continues her close collaboration with composers with the premiere of a work by Marcus Stoppa for violin and electronics at the Festival Printemps des Arts in Monaco in April 2009. In addition, Philippe Manoury is writing a violin concerto for her commissioned by the SWR Stuttgart.
Unsuk Chin
Hae-Sun Kang is one of the most sought-after violinists on the international contemporary music scene. She is highly appreciated by audiences and composers alike, as evidenced by the ever-growing number of works written specifically for her.
Hae-Sun Kang began playing the violin at the age of three in her home country of South Korea. At the age of 15 she moved to Paris to continue her studies at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique, where she herself now teaches. She received further inspiration from Yfrah Neaman, Franco Gulli, Wolfgang Schneiderhahn, Herman Krebbers, Josef Gingold and Yehudi Menuhin. She has won prizes at several international violin competitions, including Rodolfo Lipizer (Italy), the ARD Music Competition Munich, Carl Flesch (London) and Yehudi Menuhin (Paris). In 1993 she became concertmaster of the Orchestre de Paris, where her playing caught the attention of Pierre Boulez. In the following year, she became solo violinist with the Ensemble InterContemporain.
Hae-Sun Kang has premiered many important works for her instrument, including violin concertos by Pascal Dusapin, Ivan Fedele and Michael Jarrell (Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio-France, Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra and Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra). She is regularly invited to perform the violin concerto of fellow Korean Unsuk Chin. She has played the violin concertos of Matthias Pintscher and Beat Furrer with the Orchestre National de Belgique and the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin. In 1997, she premiered Pierre Boulez' Anthèmes 2 for solo violin and electronics in Donaueschingen. Since then she has performed this work, which she also recorded for Deutsche Grammophon, in concert halls and at festivals all over the world, including Salzburg, Helsinki, the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, the Cité de la Musique Paris and New York's Carnegie Hall.
In her solo recitals Hae-Sun Kang frequently presents new pieces written especially for her, most recently Beat Furrer's new work for solo violin (Ultraschall Festival Berlin, 2007), Unsuk Chin's Double blind? (Théâtre des Bouffes du Nord Paris, 2007) and - in two solo concerts in the series Festspiel+ at the Munich Opera Festival 2008 - Georges Aperghis' solo work The Only Line.
In the current season, Hae-Sun Kang will again take the stage in orchestral concerts as well as solo recitals. Under the direction of Pierre Boulez, she will appear at New York's Lincoln Center performing Ligeti's Violin Concerto. She continues her close collaboration with composers with the premiere of a work by Marcus Stoppa for violin and electronics at the Festival Printemps des Arts in Monaco in April 2009. In addition, Philippe Manoury is writing a violin concerto for her commissioned by the SWR Stuttgart.
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Photo: Aymeric Warmé-Janville
Photo: Aymeric Warmé-Janville
Photo: Aymeric Warmé-Janville