Er-Gene Kahng, seated portrait in a bright studio

Er-Gene
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New Solo Album!

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Following her acclaimed recording of the Florence Price Violin Concertos, Er-Gene Kahng continues her work of reshaping the violin’s recorded landscape with THREADED CURRENCIES, an album of solo contemporary works that examines how musical languages are carried, exchanged, and transformed within a single performer. Bringing together influences from classical, jazz, blues, and electronics, the program is an exploration of how these idioms intersect and accumulate meaning over time

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Er-Gene Kahng standing with her violin in a bright studio

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Er-Gene Kahng is a violinist, researcher, and educator whose work came to the fore through her advocacy of the American classical composer, Florence Price. Violinist Er-Gene Kahng enjoys a multifaceted career as a performer, recording artist, and educator.

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“Violinist Er-Gene Kahng's tone, round and lustrous, is well-suited to the concerto's breezy melodic theme and dotted rhythm, which propels the music forward.”

 

- NPR
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Biography

Er-Gene Kahng is a violinist, recording artist, and advocate whose work is deeply rooted in advocacy, rediscovery, and cross-cultural dialogue. Her critically acclaimed world premiere recording of Florence Price's Violin Concertos Nos. 1 and 2 (Albany Records) helped catalyze a broad reassessment of Price's legacy and was praised by The New Yorker as an invaluable contribution to American music. Kahng brings this same sense of purpose and curiosity to her programming and performance, frequently exploring intersections of tradition and innovation across genre and time.

She has performed as soloist and chamber musician throughout the United States, Europe, and Asia, and is a former member of Khemia Ensemble, a pierrot+ chamber group known for its immersive performances of contemporary music. Her discography includes Intersections (PARMA/Ravello Records), Khemia Ensemble's sophomore album, as well as the complete recording of Handel's violin sonatas. She has also recorded with the Fort Smith Symphony as their concertmaster, contributing to their Naxos world-premiere recordings of Florence Price's symphonies and of Louis Ballard's symphonic works, the first commercially distributed recording of the composer widely regarded as the first Native American concert composer.

Currently Professor of Violin at Chapman University's Hall-Musco Conservatory of Music, Kahng is a sought-after clinician, adjudicator, and speaker. Her artistic work often engages questions of identity, visibility, and heritage, with a particular focus on American composers whose voices have been historically marginalized.

Her newest solo album, Threaded Currencies, is an exploration of lineage, improvisation, and resonance: a threaded tapestry of blues, jazz, tango, folk, classical and electronic works for solo violin, available through PARMA/Navona Records.

 

"Kahng's new recording of the Violin Concertos with the Janáček Philharmonic, is Price's best outing on disk to date" 

- Alex Ross, New Yorker
Er-Gene Kahng seated on a stool in a bright studio

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