Karen Gomyo

Violinist Karen Gomyo won the 1997 Young Concert Artists International Auditions just one week after her fifteenth birthday, and was awarded the Norwalk Symphony Soloist Prize by Music Director Jesse Levine. The following year, she became the youngest artist ever to be presented in the Young Concert Artists Series in New York, in a critically-acclaimed debut as recipient of the Summis Auspiciis Prize. The Young Concert Artists Series also presented her Washington, DC recital debut at the Kennedy Center, in March, 2000. Ms. Gomyo has performed as soloist with the Minnesota Orchestra conducted by Claus Peter Flor, the National Symphony Orchestra conducted by Christopher Hogwood, and the Scottish Chamber Orchestra and Sweden's Norrköping Symphony Orchestra with conductor Joseph Swensen. In March, 2001, she performed her New York concerto debut with the New York Chamber Symphony at Alice Tully Hall. She will also perform with the Tokyo Symphony Orchestra, the Hiroshima Symphony Orchestra, the Indianapolis Symphony, the San Antonio Symphony, the Cincinnati Chamber Orchestra, the Massapequa (NY) Philharmonic Orchestra and the New Britain (CT) Symphony during the 2000-2001 season. ... more...