In this video, violinist Clara-Jumi Kang performs Paganini’s Caprice no.11 at a V Salon Concert for Korean video sharing platform V Live.

Born in Germany to a musical family, Clara-Jumi Kang took up the violin at the age of three and a year later enrolled as the youngest ever student at the Mannheim Musikhochschuhle. She went on to study with Zakhar Bron at the Lübeck Musikhochschule and at the age of seven was awarded a full scholarship to the Julliard School to study with Dorothy Delay. She took her Bachelor and Masters degrees at the Korean National University of Arts before completing her studies at the Munich Musikhochschule with Christoph Poppen.

Clara-Jumi Kang currently plays the 1708 ‘Strauss’ Stradivarius, on loan to her from the Samsung Cultural Foundation Korea. 

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