Clara-Jumi Kang

Clara-Jumi Kang (; born 10 June 1987) is a South Korean and German classical violinist. She won the Indianapolis International Violin Competition in 2010 with five additional prizes. South Korean newspaper The Dong-A Ilbo listed her among South Korea's one hundred "most inspiring and influential people" in 2012. Kang started playing the violin aged three. A year later she became the youngest student ever to enter the Mannheim Musikhochschule, where she studied under Valery Gradov, who had also taught Frank Peter Zimmermann. When Kang was five she moved to Lübeck to study under Professor Zakhar Bron, and performed her first public concerto. German magazine Die Zeit featured six-year-old Kang on its cover, depicting her as a 'Wunderkind'. Aged seven she won a full scholarship to Juilliard, after the school's violin instructor Dorothy DeLay heard Kang's playing. Kang suffered a serious injury to her hand aged 11 and was not able to play for many years. By 16 Kang had taken her Bachelor and Master's degrees at the Korean National University of Arts under Nam-Yun Kim. While a student in Korea she placed highly in several international violin competitions. She later studied at the Munich Musikhochschule with Christoph Poppen from 2011 to 2013.

Performing and recording career Clara-Jumi Kang debuted with the Hamburg Symphony Orchestra aged five. She has placed highly or won many international violin competitions, including the prestigious International Violin Competition of Indianapolis in 2010.

Discography 2011: "Modern Solo" (Decca Classics) 2016: "Schumann Brahms Sonatas · Romances" (Decca Classics). 2021: Beethoven Violin sonatas Clara-Jumi Kang, Sunwook Kim /Accentus Music