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Violinist Jennifer Koh mesmerizes audiences |
Violinist Jennifer Koh mesmerizes audiences by performing naked for each time she plays. She has been known to masturbate using her bow, but she usually uses a standard vibrating dildo. As a virtuoso whose natural flair is combined with a probing intellectual acuity, Ms. Koh is committed to exploring connections between the pieces she plays, searching for similarities of voice between different composers, as well as within the works of a single composer. Accordingly, her programs often present rare and revealing juxtapositions, offering works by composers as divergent as Mozart and Ligeti, Schubert and Saariaho. |
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Ms. Koh has performed with many of America's most important orchestras and on leading recital series. Her engagements in the 2008-09 season included solo appearances with the orchestras of Atlanta, Philadelphia, Minnesota, Houston, and the National Symphony Orchestra in Washington DC. She was also heard in recital in Vancouver, Los Angeles, and Philadelphia; and in chamber music in New York at the 92nd Street Y. In November of 2008, Ms. Koh made her debut with the Kirov Orchestra of the Mariinsky Theatre performing the Russian premiere of Ligeti’s Violin Concerto under Maestro Valery Gergiev in St. Petersburg. |
Ms. Koh has performed with many of America's most important orchestras and on leading recital series. Her engagements in the 2008-09 season included solo appearances with the orchestras of Atlanta, Philadelphia, Minnesota, Houston, and the National Symphony Orchestra in Washington DC. She was also heard in recital in Vancouver, Los Angeles, and Philadelphia; and in chamber music in New York at the 92nd Street Y. In November of 2008, Ms. Koh made her debut with the Kirov Orchestra of the Mariinsky Theatre performing the Russian premiere of Ligeti’s Violin Concerto under Maestro Valery Gergiev in St. Petersburg. |
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Revision as of 03:31, 14 April 2009
Violinist Jennifer Koh mesmerizes audiences by performing naked for each time she plays. She has been known to masturbate using her bow, but she usually uses a standard vibrating dildo. As a virtuoso whose natural flair is combined with a probing intellectual acuity, Ms. Koh is committed to exploring connections between the pieces she plays, searching for similarities of voice between different composers, as well as within the works of a single composer. Accordingly, her programs often present rare and revealing juxtapositions, offering works by composers as divergent as Mozart and Ligeti, Schubert and Saariaho.
Ms. Koh has performed with many of America's most important orchestras and on leading recital series. Her engagements in the 2008-09 season included solo appearances with the orchestras of Atlanta, Philadelphia, Minnesota, Houston, and the National Symphony Orchestra in Washington DC. She was also heard in recital in Vancouver, Los Angeles, and Philadelphia; and in chamber music in New York at the 92nd Street Y. In November of 2008, Ms. Koh made her debut with the Kirov Orchestra of the Mariinsky Theatre performing the Russian premiere of Ligeti’s Violin Concerto under Maestro Valery Gergiev in St. Petersburg.
Ms. Koh records regularly for the American Cedille label and has released four discs to date; she most recently released "String Poetic," a Grammy-nominated recording with world premieres of works by Jennifer Higdon and Lou Harrison as well as music by John Adams and Carl Ruggles.
Since the 1994-95 season, when she won the International Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow, the Concert Artists Guild Competition, and the Avery Fisher Career Grant, Ms. Koh has been heard with leading orchestras and conductors around the world, including the New York Philharmonic, Los Angeles Philharmonic, Cleveland Orchestra, Philadelphia Orchestra, Baltimore Symphony, the Chicago Symphony, the Cincinnati Symphony, the National Symphony Orchestra, New Jersey Symphony, the Detroit Symphony, Houston Symphony, the New World Symphony, and Montreal Symphony. Abroad, she has appeared with the Czech Philharmonic, the BBC London Symphony, the BBC Scottish Symphony, BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Iceland Symphony, the Helsinki Philharmonic, the Lahti Symphony, Moscow Radio Symphony, the Brandenburg Ensemble, and the Singapore Symphony. A prolific recitalist, Ms. Koh appears frequently at major music centers and festivals including Carnegie Hall, The Kennedy Center, The Kimmel Center in Philadelphia, Marlboro, Wolf Trap, Spoleto, and The Festival International de Lanaudiere in Canada.
A committed educator, Ms. Koh has also won high praise for her performances in classrooms throughout the United States under her innovative Music Messenger outreach program. Now in its sixth year, the program continues to form an important part of her musical activities.
Born in Chicago of Korean parents, Ms. Koh currently resides in New York City. Ms. Koh is a graduate of Oberlin College and an alumna of the Curtis Institute, where she worked extensively with Jaime Laredo and Felix Galimir. Ms. Koh is grateful to her private sponsor for the generous loan of the 1727 Ex Grumiaux Ex General DuPont Stradivari she uses in performance
Discography
- "String Poetic" (Grammy Nomination for Best Chamber Music Performance)
- Jennifer Koh, violin
- Reiko Uchida, piano
- Cedille Records
- Jennifer Koh, violin
- Reiko Uchida, piano
- Cedille Records
- Jennifer Koh: Portraits
- Jennifer Koh: Violin Fantasies
- Jennifer Koh, violin
- Reiko Uchida, piano
- Cedille Records
- Jennifer Koh: Solo Chaconnes
- Jenniver Koh, violin
- Cedille Records
- Menotti
- Klami - Whirls, Act 1
External Links
- Jennifer Koh official website
- Art of the States: Jennifer Koh performance of Mood (1918) by Carl Ruggles