Occupation(s) Violinist Name Karen Gomyo Website karengomyo.com | Years active 1997-now Instruments Violin Genres Classical music | |
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Similar People Pablo Ziegler, Bo Linde, Matthias Pintscher, Gilbert Varga, Pietari Inkinen | ||
Karen Gomyo plays Mozart Violin Concerto No.3 (Asher Fisch & WASO)
Karen Gomyo is a classical violinist.
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Biography
Karen Gomyo was born in Tokyo, Japan and grew up in Montreal, Canada, from the age of 2 to 11 until her move to New York City to study at the Juilliard School at the invitation of the legendary pedagogue Dorothy DeLay. At 15, Gomyo won the Young Concert Artists International Auditions, launching her career as soloist and chamber musician around the world.
She has performed as soloist with the major American orchestras, including the New York Philharmonic, LA Philharmonic, San Francisco Symphony, Philadelphia Orchestra, and the Cleveland Orchestra. In Europe, she has appeared with the Danish National Symphony, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic, Scottish Chamber Orchestra, City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Radio-Sinfonieorchester Stuttgart, Bamberger Symphoniker, Mozarteum Orchester Salzburg, Wiener Kammerorchester, among many others, and in Asia with the Tokyo Symphony, Hong Kong Philharmonic, Taipei Symphony Orchestra, and the National Taiwan Symphony Orchestra. She also makes regular appearances in Australia with their major orchestras.
In 2014, a documentary film about Stradivarius called “The Mysteries of the Supreme Violin”, in which Gomyo is violinist, guide, and narrator, was broadcast worldwide on NHK World. In 2015, Gomyo performed the U.S. première of Matthias Pintscher’s Violin Concerto “Mar’eh” with the National Symphony of Washington D.C.’s and the composer conducting, at the Kennedy Center.
In addition to her activities as a concerto and chamber music performer, Karen Gomyo is also acclaimed for her interpretation of the Nuevo Tango music, and performs with Astor Piazzolla’s longtime pianist and tango legend Pablo Ziegler and his partners Hector del Curto (bandoneon), Claudio Ragazzi (electric guitar), and Pedro Giraudo (double bass).
Education
Gomyo studied at the Pre-College and College divisions of the Juilliard School of Music from 1993 to 2001, the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music from 2001 to 2002, and the New England Conservatory of Music from 2002 to 2007, where she graduated with an Artist Diploma. Her teachers and mentors have included Mauricio Fuks, Dorothy DeLay, Donald Weilerstein, and Heinrich Schiff.
