Clara jumi kang biography channel

South Korean-German violinist (born 1987)

In this Korean name, the family name is Kang.

Musical artist

Clara-Jumi Kang (Korean: 클라라 주미 강, born in Mannheim, Germany on 10 June 1987) is a South Korean-Germanclassical violinist.

She won the Indianapolis International Violin Competition in 2010 with five additional prizes. South Korean newspaper The Dong-A Ilbo listed her among South Korea's one hundred "most inspiring and influential people" in 2012.^[4] She was named the Kumho Musician of the Year in 2013.^[5]

Childhood and education

Kang's parents are famous Korean opera singers: her father is Wagnerianbass Philip Kang, and her mother is soprano Han Min-hee.^[5] Clara-Jumi Kang started playing the violin aged three.

A year later she became the youngest student ever to enter the Mannheim Musikhochschule, where she studied under Valery Gradov, who had also taught Frank Peter Zimmermann. When Kang was five she moved