Karen Gomyo, violin
Canadian violinist Karen Gomyo enjoys an international career as soloist and chamber musician. Born in Tokyo and raised in Montreal, she was winner of the 1997 Young Concert Artists International Auditions at the age of fifteen. Gomyo has appeared with the New York Philharmonic, Philadelphia Orchestra, San Francisco Symphony, the Los Andgeles Philharmonic with Leonard Slatkin at the Hollywood Bowl, the Baltimore Symphony, the National Orchestra of DC, the Residentie Orchestra of Den Haag with new Music Director, Neeme Järvi, the Royal Scottish National Orchestra, the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Orchestre National de Lille, St. Louis Symphony, Houston Symphony, Toronto Symphony, Montreal Symphony, and the New Jersey Symphony, as well as the orchestras of Tokyo, Bretagne, Utah, Winnipeg, Edmonton, Phoenix and more. As a chamber musician, she has performed at the Bridgehampton Chamber Music Festival, Caramoor, Bard Festival, Bargemusic, Usedom Festival in Germany, Miyazaki Festival and Young Concert Artists at Chanel Ginza in Japan. Gomyo has studied with Dorothy DeLay at Juilliard, Mauricio Fuks at Indiana University, and Donald Weilerstein at the New England Conservatory. She plays on the 1703 Stradivarius “ex-Foulis”, on permanent loan from a private sponsor.
