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Nicolas Dautricourt / violin
Voted “ADAMI Classical Discovery of the Year”
at the Midem in Cannes and awarded the Sacem
Georges Enesco Prize, Nicolas Dautricourt
is undoubtedly one of the most brilliant and
engaging French violinists of his generation.
Dautricourt, who is appreciated for his “sensitivity
and passionate manner,” is particularly fond of
chamber music. As a member of the Chamber
Music Society of Lincoln Center in New York,
he appears at major venues around the world
including the Kennedy Center, Alice Tully Hall,
Wigmore Hall, Tchaikovsky Hall, Copenhagen
Concert Hall, Salle Pleyel, Théâtre des Champs-
Élysées, Opéra du Rhin. He has performed as
a soloist with a number of leading orchestras
including the Orchestre National de France, Detroit
Symphony, Québec Symphony, Sinfonia Varsovia,
Capitole de Toulouse Symphony, Orchestre
Philharmonique du Maroc, under the baton of
conductors such as Leonard Slatkin, Paavo Järvi,
Tugan Sokhiev, Eivind Gullberg Jensen, Kazuki
Yamada, Yuri Bashmet. Dautricourt participates
in many festivals at home in France and abroad,
including La Chaise-Dieu, La Roque d’Antheron,
Printemps des Arts (Monaco), Folles Journées de
Nantes, Rencontres Musicales de La Baule, and O
Modernt Festival (Sweden). He is prize-winner in
numerous international violin competitions, such
as the HenrykWieniawski Competition in Poznan,
the Jeunesses Musicales Competition in Belgrade,
the Rodolfo Lipizer in Gorizia and the Gian-
Battista Viotti in Vercelli Competitions.
Clara-Jumi Kang / violin
Clara-Jumi Kang was born in Germany under a
musical family and she started playing the violin
at the age of three. At seven, she got accepted at
the Juilliard School to study with full scholarship
and at the same time she had already performed
with orchestras such as Leipzig Gewandthaus,
Hamburg Symphony, Nice Philharmonie, Atlanta
Symphony and Seoul Philharmonic, and she
released her first CD. She is prize winner in
several major violin competitions, including,
Tibor Varga Violin Competition, Seoul Violin
Competition, Hannover Violin Competition,
International Violin Competition of Indianapolis.
Clara-Jumi Kang has been invited to perform
as a soloist with orchestras such as Dresden
Kapellsolisten, Indianapolis Symphony, Santa
Fe Symphony, Tokyo Metropolitan Orchestra,
Osaka Philharmonic, Taipei National Symphony,
Moscow
Philharmonic
Orchestra,
KBS
Orchestra. For DECCA, she released in 2011 her
first solo album,
Modern Solo.
This season she
appears as a soloist with the Mariinsky Orchestra,
the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra, Orchestre
National de Belgique, National Philharmonic of
David Abrahamyan
Jennifer Stumm