Photo: Gabrielle RevereKaren Gomyo
Tokyo; began her career in Montréal and New York
Karen Gomyo was born in Tokyo and began her career in Montréal and New York.
- Studied with Dorothy DeLay
- Gewandhaus debut under Bychkov
- Samuel Adams premiere with LA Phil
- A Piazzolla Trilogy on BIS
- Hosted NHK film on Stradivari
“From her first, deeply eloquent phrases, Karen Gomyo told us that she was one of the few who could.”
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She studied with Dorothy DeLay at Juilliard, then with Mauricio Fuks at Indiana University and Donald Weilerstein at New England Conservatory, and privately in Vienna with Heinrich Schiff. She plays with the New York Philharmonic, Chicago Symphony and Cleveland Orchestra, and made her Gewandhausorchester Leipzig debut under Semyon Bychkov. Each season she plays a work by a living composer; she gave the U.
S. premieres of concertos by Samy Moussa and Matthias Pintscher. Her 2026/27 season opens with the world premiere of a new Samuel Adams concerto with the Los Angeles Philharmonic.
On BIS she recorded A Piazzolla Trilogy, and she has played tango with Piazzolla’s longtime pianist Pablo Ziegler. In February 2027 she plays the Dvořák Violin Concerto with the Oregon Symphony under Jun Märkl.
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