For Your Consideration
THREADED CURRENCIES
for the category of
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.
Album
Threaded Currencies
"Kahng carries a caressing sense of phrase and an honest musicianship [which] translates the music into a meaningful discourse few virtuosi accomplish”
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
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