Wenting Kang (Viola)
“An excellent violist who possess a dark glowing sound” — New York Times
“Impressive nimble playing!”—Boston Globe
“Elegant, precise and not without expressive intensity”, “pure muscular tone-passionate without ever losing a sense of control”—Boston Musical Intelligencer
"A Dark and Bright Viola"
The Chinese viola Wenting Kang has been described as "an excellent violist" who "has a dark and bright sound" by the New York Times after her performance at the Marlboro Music Festival at Carnegie Hall. His performance has also been described by the Boston Musical Intelligencer as "elegant, precise and full of expressive intensity", which has "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 with the Boston Modern Orchestra Project. He has performed solos in prestigious concert halls, such as the Jordan Hall in Boston or the Kioi and Ishibashi Memorial halls in Tokyo. He has received the First Prize in the II edition of the Tokyo International Viola Competition in 2012. He has also won the Mozart Sinfonia Concertante competitions at the New England Conservatory, the V August Dombrovska International Competition, the Concerto Competition of the Beijing Central Music Center. , and the first prize at the China Viola Festival and National Viola Contest, where it also won additional awards for concert and contemporary piece.
Additionally, she has won the third prize at the 2010 Johannes Brahms International Competition and the Robertson Prize at the 2011 Viola Primrose International Competition.
As an active chamber musician, she has been invited to several international music festivals, such as Marlboro Music, Steans Institute in Ravinia, Yellow Barn Music and Monadnock in the USA, Viola Space in Tokyo and Chamber Music Connects the World in Kronberg.
He has shared the stage with several renowned artists, such as Kim Kashkashian, Nobuko Imai, Antoine Tamestit, Steven Isserlis, Christian Tetzlaff, Lucy Chapman, Donald Palma, Paul Katz, Peter Wiley and Marcy Rosen. He is currently expanding his postgraduate studies at the Kronberg Academy with Nobuko Imai, as well as 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 has worked as an exchange student with renowned violinists such as Donald Weilerstein and Miriam Fried.
In addition, she is an Assistant Professor of the BBVA Foundation Viola Chair at the Reina Sofía School of Music. Since 2017 he has been a member of the Imai Viola Quartet and since December 2018 he is a member of the Dalia Quartet.
Wenting Kang / Biber Passacaglia
