Canadian violinist Karen Gomyo won the 1997 Young Concert Artists International Auditions just one week after her fifteenth birthday. The following year she became the youngest artist ever to be presented in the Young Concert Artists Series in New York, in a critically-acclaimed debut as recipient of the Summis Auspiciis Prize.

Gomyo will appear this coming season with the St. Louis Symphony, the Houston Symphony, the Toronto Symphony, the Royal Scottish National Orchestra, the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, and the New Jersey Symphony as well as the orchestras of Utah, Winnipeg, Edmonton, Phoenix and more.

Last season (2006-07) saw Ms. Gomyo’s debut with the Philadelphia Orchestra, the San Francisco Symphony, the National Arts Centre Orchestra of Ottawa and the Residentie Orchestra of the Hague in that orchestra’s first concerts with its new Music Director, Neeme Jarvi, on the podium. Gomyo also returned to appear with the Dallas Symphony, the Calgary Philharmonic, the Buffalo Philharmonic, and the Edmonton Symphony among others that season as well.

Summer 2007 marked her Los Angeles Philharmonic return to the Hollywood Bowl under the baton of Leonard Slatkin.