In the 2025/26 season, Kang is Artist-in-Residence with the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra. As part of her residency, she performs concertos by Lalo, Shostakovich, and Bernstein with Chief Conductor Ryan Bancroft.

Other highlights of the season include her subscription debut with the London Symphony Orchestra at the Barbican, the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, touring with the Chamber Orchestra of Europe, and the Philharmonia Orchestra on its South Korean tour. She also debuts at Walt Disney Concert Hall in tonight’s duo recital alongside Sunwook Kim. Elsewhere in the season she performs with the BBC Philharmonic, Iceland Symphony, Orchestre Philharmonique de Monte-Carlo, Houston Symphony, Hamburg Symphony at the Elbphilharmonie, and the BBC National Orchestra of Wales, among others.

Kang regularly appears at major international festivals and venues including the BBC Proms, the Hollywood Bowl, Salzburg Festival, Verbier Festival, Edinburgh Festival, and the Pacific Music Festival in Sapporo. In recent years she has made highly successful appearances with the Orchestra dell’Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia alongside Music Director Daniel Harding; Munich Philharmonic, Israel Philharmonic, and Rotterdam Philharmonic under Chief Conductor Lahav Shani; Seoul Philharmonic with Music Director Jaap van Zweden; and New York Philharmonic, Budapest Festival Orchestra, and NHK Symphony Orchestra. In 2025, she was the soloist for the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra’s tour to China and Europe with Zubin Mehta.

Kang was selected as one of the 100 most promising and influential people of Korea in 2012 by The Dong-A Ilbo and was awarded the Daewon Music Award (2012). She has made two recordings for Decca: Modern Solo, featuring works by Schubert and Ysaÿe, and a Brahms–Schumann album with pianist Yeol Eum Son. In 2021, she released a cycle of Beethoven violin sonatas with pianist Sunwook Kim.

A dedicated chamber musician, she collaborates with artists including Martha Argerich, Gidon Kremer, Mischa Maisky, and Janine Jansen.

Born in Germany to Korean parents, Clara-Jumi Kang took up the violin at the age of 3 and a year later enrolled as the youngest-ever student at the Mannheim Musikhochschule. She went on to study with Zakhar Bron at the Lübeck Musikhochschule and at 7 was awarded a full scholarship to The Juilliard School to study with Dorothy DeLay. Having received musical guidance from Daniel Barenboim starting from the age of 11, she was invited to perform with him and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra at age 12. She received her Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees at the Korea National University of Arts under Nam Yun Kim before completing her studies at the Munich Musikhochschule with Christoph Poppen.

Kang plays on the “Thunis” Stradivarius from 1702, on generous loan by Kia.