Clara Jumi Kang

Early life and education

Clara-Jumi Kang was born in Mannheim, Germany to Korean parents. At age five, she began to take lessons from Valery Gradov at the Mannheim Musikhochschule. When she was seven, she moved to the United States and received a full scholarship to the Juilliard School, studying with Dorothy Delay and Hyo Kang. She later enrolled at the Hanns Eisler Hochschule in Berlin and the Hochschule für Musik und Theater in Munich.

Career

Kang first performed professionally with the Hamburg Symphony Orchestra. She was the winner of the 2009 Seoul International Music Competition and the second-place winner of the Joseph Joachim International Violin Competition in Hannover. In 2010, she won first prize in the Sendai International Violin Competition and a gold medal in the International Violin Competition of Indianapolis.