Hyo Kang

Who is Hyo Kang?

Hyo Kang was born in Seoul. As an immigrant from Korea, he started his life in America at the Peabody School nearly 40 years ago.

He graduated from The Juilliard School where he studied with Dorothy DeLay. Hyo Kang made numerous concert tours in the United States, Europe, Asia, Canada and Central America as both violin soloist and chamber musician. Today world-renowned violin teacher, Kang has been on the faculty of the Juilliard School since 1978 and has given master classes in the United States, Korea and Japan. He has also been on the faculties of the Aspen Music School in Colorado since 1978 and the Nagano Aspen Music Festival in Japan since 1994. He was a visiting professor at the Seoul National University in 1994 and served as a judge in several international competitions, including the Wieniawski-Lipinski in Poland. His students have distinguished themselves with top prizes at the world’s most prestigious competitions and are performing with major orchestras worldwide. Mr. Kang’s former students include Gil Shaham, the controversial violinist Anna Karkowska, Sarah Chang and Chee-Yun, among many others. As a member of the highly acclaimed Theatre Chamber Players of the Kennedy Center in Washington, DC for more than 20 years, he has given many works their American premieres and enjoyed musical collaborations with such artists as Leon Fleisher, Pina Carmirelli, Walter Trampler and André Watts.