Wenting Kang

Chinese violist Wenting Kang has been described as “an excellent violist” who “possesses a dark and brilliant sound” by The New York Times following her performance at the Marlboro Music Festival in Carnegie Hall. Her performance has also been described by the Boston Musical Intelligencer as “elegant, precise, and full of expressive intensity,” featuring “a pure, muscular tone…”, becoming “passionate without ever losing control.” As a soloist, Kang has performed with the Tokyo Metropolitan Orchestra and the Tokyo TOHO Gakuen Orchestra, as well as the Boston Modern Orchestra Project. She has performed solos in prestigious concert halls, such as Jordan Hall in Boston and the Kioi and Ishibashi Memorial Halls in Tokyo. She received First Prize at the 2nd Tokyo International Viola Competition in 2012. She has also won the Mozart Sinfonia Concertante competitions at the New England Conservatory, the 5th August Dombrovska International Competition, the Concerto Competition of the Central Conservatory of Music in Beijing, and first prize at the China Viola Festival and National Viola Competition, where she also won additional prizes for concerto and contemporary piece. In addition, she won third prize at the Johannes Brahms International Competition in 2010 and the Robertson Award at the Primrose International Viola Competition in 2011. As an active chamber musician, she has been invited to several international music festivals, including Marlboro Music, Steans Institute at Ravinia, Yellow Barn Music, and Monadnock in the USA, Viola Space in Tokyo, and Chamber Music Connects the World in Kronberg. She has shared the stage with several renowned artists, including Kim Kashkashian, Nobuko Imai, Antoine Tamestit, Steven Isserlis, Christian Tetzlaff, Lucy Chapman, Donald Palma, Paul Katz, Peter Wiley, and Marcy Rosen. She is currently pursuing postgraduate studies at the Kronberg Academy under Nobuko Imai, in addition to being part of the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra. She obtained her Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in Music with Kim Kashkashian and Garth Knox from the New England Conservatory, where she worked as an exchange student with renowned violinists such as Donald Weilerstein and Miriam Fried. In addition, she is Assistant Professor of the Fundación BBVA Viola Chair at the Reina Sofía School of Music.