Appointed first associate concertmaster of The Philadelphia Orchestra in 2005, Canadian violinist Juliette Kang, who holds the Joseph and Marie Field Chair, enjoys an active and varied career. Previously assistant concertmaster of the Boston Symphony and a member of the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, she has performed solo engagements with the San Francisco, Baltimore, Omaha, and Syracuse symphonies; l’Orchestre National de France; the Boston Pops; and every major orchestra in Canada, among others. Internationally she has appeared with the Czech and Hong Kong philharmonics, the Vienna Chamber Orchestra, and the Singapore and KBS (Seoul) symphonies. She has given recitals in Philadelphia, Paris, Tokyo, and Boston. In 1994 she won first prize at the International Violin Competition of Indianapolis and was presented at Carnegie Hall in a recital that was recorded live and released on CD. She has also recorded the Schumann and Wieniawski violin concertos with the Vancouver Symphony for CBC Records. In 2012 Ms. Kang was again a featured soloist at Carnegie Hall for the visit of her hometown orchestra, the Edmonton Symphony, and that season she made her Philadelphia Orchestra subscription solo debut with Gianandrea Noseda.
Ms. Kang has been involved with chamber music since studying at the Curtis Institute of Music. Festivals she has participated in include Bravo! Vail, Bridgehampton, Kingston, Marlboro, Moab, Skaneateles, and Spoleto USA. In New York she has performed with the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center; at the Mostly Mozart Festival with her husband, cellist Thomas Kraines; and at the Bard Music Festival. With Philadelphia Orchestra violist Che Hung Chen, pianist Natalie Zhu, and cellist Clancy Newman she is a member of the Clarosa Quartet.
After receiving a Bachelor of Music degree at age 15 from Curtis as a student of Jascha Brodsky, Ms. Kang earned a master’s degree at the Juilliard School under the tutelage of Dorothy DeLay and Robert Mann. She was a winner of the 1989 Young Concert Artists Auditions and subsequently received first prize at the Menuhin Violin Competition of Paris in 1992. She serves on the Central Board of Trustees at Philadelphia's Settlement Music School, one of the oldest and largest community schools of the arts in the country.