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THREADED CURRENCIES

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BEST CLASSICAL INSTRUMENTAL SOLO

An exploration of cultural lineage, inheritance, and resonance, Threaded Currencies is a tapestry of blues, jazz, folk, classical, and electronic works for solo violin that traces how musical languages move and accumulate meaning within a single performer.

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Er-Gene Kahng, solo violin
Navona Records / PARMA
Release Date: July 24, 2026

01 Morrison | Fernando Otero 6:13
02 Filter | Daniel Bernard Roumain 4:59
03 Louisiana Blues Strut | Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson 2:53
04 Four Portraits: I. Prelude and Allegro | Billy Childs 4:09
05 Four Portraits: II. Adagio Lirico | Billy Childs  4:32
06 Four Portraits: III. Pavane | Billy Childs  6:12
07 Four Portraits: IV. Gigue | Billy Childs  3:30
08 Rhapsody No. 2 | Jessie Montgomery 5:19
09 Blue/s Forms: I. Plain Blue/s | Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson 1:24
10 Blue/s Forms: II. Just Blue/s | Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson 2:32
11 Blue/s Forms: III. Jettin' Blue/s | Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson 3:08
12 Filter (with distortion) | Daniel Bernard Roumain 5:01
13 Vespers | Missy Mazzoli 5:09

Er-Gene Kahng standing, playing the violin

Threaded Currencies

Threaded Currencies

"Kahng carries a caressing sense of phrase and an honest musicianship [which] translates the music into a meaningful discourse few virtuosi accomplish”

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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.

Credits

Recorded December 16-18, 2025 at Studio Martínek in Prague, Czech Republic

Session Producer Jan Košulič
Session Engineer Aleš Dvořák
Editing Jan Košulič
Additional Editing & Mixing Lucas Paquette (Tracks 1-13), Melanie Montgomery (Tracks 2 & 12-13)
Mastering Melanie Montgomery

Cover Art: Pirouette (2025) by Michelle Echenique
michelleechenique.com

Executive Producer Bob Lord

VP of A&R Brandon MacNeil
A&R Jeff LeRoy

VP of Production Jan Košulič
Audio Director Lucas Paquette
Production Director Martina Watzková
Studio Martínek Manager Magdaléna Samková

VP, Design & Marketing Brett Picknell
Art Director Ryan Harrison
Design Edward A. Fleming
Publicity Aidan Curran
Marketing Manager Brett Iannucci

Er-Gene Kahng seated on a stool in a bright studio

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