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

Projects

I approach my work as an ongoing search for meaning through sound. As a 21st-century performing artist, that means moving fluidly across roles: performer, curator, educator, and collaborator. I value curiosity, clarity, equity, and creative integrity, and I strive to cultivate spaces where every story can be told through sound.

  • Vespers for solo violin and electronics

    Vespers for solo violin and electronics

    Violinist Er-Gene Kahng and dancer/choreographer Ashley Coupal bring Missy Mazzoli's Vespers for Violin to the screen, from Er-Gene's solo album Threaded Currencies (Navona Records, 2026).

  • Filter (excerpt) - Daniel Bernard Roumain | Shu Kinouchi

    Filter (excerpt) - Daniel Bernard Roumain | Shu Kinouchi

    Violinist Er-Gene Kahng and dancer/choreographer Shu Kinouchi meet in an excerpt from Daniel Bernard Roumain's Filter, from Er-Gene's solo album Threaded Currencies (Navona Records, 2026).

    Filter is built on relentless rhythmic drive and a restless, almost electric energy. Shu makes it possible to see what happens when that energy leaves the recording and moves through the body. 

  • PBS Now Hear This "Florence Price and the American Migration"

    From Little Rock to Chicago, host Scott Yoo follows the trail of the great African American composer Florence Price.

  • Opus 96 - Red Pill TRILLOQUY podcast

    Opus 96 - Red Pill TRILLOQUY podcast

    Garrett celebrates the legacy of Florence Price with violinist Er-Gene Kahng, noted for creating the premiere recording of Price's Violin Concerti. 

    What is TRILLOQUY?

    CLASSICAL MUSIC has been misappropriated as a musical genre and a culture rooted in the aesthetics of Western Europe.
    TRILLOQUY is the weekly podcast built to DECOLONIZE the traditional definitions and conversations surrounding CLASSICAL MUSIC.
    "True and real arts conversations". TRILLOQUY.org

  • Performance & Discussion | The Lark Ascending By Ralph Vaughan Williams, Orchestra With Ballet

    Performance & Discussion | The Lark Ascending By Ralph Vaughan Williams, Orchestra With Ballet

    Performance: Arkansas Philharmonic Orchestra and Northwest Arkansas Ballet Theatre

    Discussion: Join Maestro Steven Byess, Choreographer, David Justin, Violin Solist, Er-Gene Kahng, and Principal Dancer, Carmen Felder in a discussion about APO and NWA Ballet's collaborative performance of Ralph Vaughan William's, The Lark Ascending.

    The Lark Ascending By Ralph Vaughan Williams
    Violin Solo, ErGene Kahng
    Principal Dancer, Carmen Felder
    Conductor, Steven Byess
    Choreographer, David Justin

  • World-Premiere Recording of Price's Symphonies Nos. 1 and 4

    As concertmaster of the Fort Smith Symphony, Er-Gene Kahng performs on the orchestra's recording of Florence Price's Symphony No. 1 and Symphony No. 4 - the latter a world-premiere recording.

    The Fort Smith Symphony's Price cycle extended the revival that began with the violin concertos, documenting symphonic works that had waited decades for a commercial recording and bringing Price's orchestral voice to an international audience.

  • The Rediscovery of Florence Price

    New Yorker piece by Alex Ross