Jennifer Koh

Tiny Desk Premiere: Jennifer Koh and Missy Mazzoli

Our Time Is Now – Curated by Jennifer Koh –#RestartStages at Lincoln Center

Music Mondays presents Bridge to Beethoven
Jennifer Koh, violin; Thomas Sauer, piano

WPA Virtual Commissions: A DUST IN TIME for Solo Violin by Huang Ruo, featuring Jennifer Koh

Bach and Beyond at Ojai Music Festival

Aspen Music Festival and School's Bridge to Beethoven
See a live performance from summer 2015 featuring acclaimed violinist Jennifer Koh and pianist Shai Wosner playing a program from their brilliant series, “Bridge to Beethoven.”
Airs on Rocky Mountain PBS January 3 at 2pm
Produced by Lisa D. Olken, edited by Daniel Mercure.

Saariaho X Koh
Pre-order today! All CDs and downloads ship November 9
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Jennifer Koh plays 6 new works for solo violin that redefine virtuosity for the 21st century

Jennifer spoke at the League of American Orchestras’ 73rd National Conference in Chicago on June 14, 2018
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Christopher Cerrone - Concerto for Violin and Orchestra "Breaks and Breaks"
World premiere performance from May 26, 2018.
Peter Oundjian, conductor; Jennifer Koh, violin; Detroit Symphony Orchestra

Oberlin Contemporary Music Ensemble: A Workshop with Jennifer Koh ’97 & Vijay Iyer
Jennifer and Vijay Iyer spent a week in April 2017 workshopping Iyer's new violin concerto "Trouble" with students at Oberlin College and Conservatory. The piece launched the Mixtape project and was later premiered at the 2017 Ojai Music Festival with the collaboration of the International Contemporary Ensemble (ICE) and the Oberlin Contemporary Music Ensemble. Please see the video below for a discussion of the "Trouble" workshop at Oberlin.

Jennifer Koh's Shared Madness Web Series
WQXR's Q2 Music premieres violinist Jennifer Koh's new online series, in which she converses with a diverse range of 30 dynamic, leading composers who contributed music to her Shared Madness project.
June 5: LA Opera's Matthew Aucoin
June 6: The National's Bryce Dessner
June 7: Chicago Symphony Orchestra's Samuel Carl Adams
June 8: Talea Ensemble's Anthony Cheung
June 9: 'Breaking the Waves' Composer Missy Mazzoli
June 12: Modern-Day Troubadour Gabriel Kahane
June 13: Multimedia Composer Zosha Di Castri
June 14: Composer-Pianist Timo Andres
June 15: Boston Symphony Orchestra's Eric Nathan
June 16: American Composers Orchestra's Derek Bermel
June 19: Invisible Cities' Christopher Cerrone
June 20: Orchestral Specialist Sean Shepherd
June 21: Composer-Vocalist Lisa Bielawa
June 22: Composer and Former MATA Director James Matheson
June 23: Pulitzer Prize-Winning Composer John Harbison
June 26: wild Up's Christopher Rountree
June 27: IRCAM Innovator Jean-Baptiste Barrière
June 28: Chicago's Augusta Read Thomas
June 29: Unsilent Night's Phil Kline
June 30: Ojai Music Festival Director Vijay Iyer
July 3: Curtis Institute's David Ludwig
July 4: Sante Fe Composer Marc Neikrug
July 5: Transatlantic Composer David Bruce
July 6: Finnish Icon Kaija Saariaho
July 7: Bedroom Community's Daníel Bjarnason
July 10: Grawemeyer Award Winner Andrew Norman
July 11: Composer & Sound Designer Mark Grey
July 12: Bang on a Can's Michael Gordon
July 13: MacArthur Fellow Julia Wolfe
July 14: Pulitzer Prize Winner David Lang

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Bach and Beyond Part II
Jennifer Koh discusses her upcoming album, Bach and Beyond Part 2, to be released by Cedille Records May 2015.
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Bridge to Beethoven: Overview
Jennifer Koh and Shai Wosner discuss their upcoming collaboration, 'Bridge to Beethoven' which pairs Beethoven’s ten violin sonatas with new works over four programs. Their project explores the significant impact that Beethoven has had on audiences and artists from various cultural backgrounds. New works have been commissioned from composers Anthony Cheung, Vijay Iyer, and Andrew Norman as companion pieces to specific Beethoven violin sonatas. 'Bridge to Beethoven' also includes performances of Jörg Widmann's 2010 work 'Sommersonate,' which Koh and Wosner performed the US premiere of in 2014.
The subsequent videos in this playlist explore the three composers' new works in depth.

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Off Stage On Record
Violinist Jennifer Koh provides a behind-the-scenes look at the life and career of a concert artist in this new entertaining and informative video series, Off Stage On Record, for students, artists, audiences and fans alike. Follow Jennifer as she explores creativity, collaboration, recording, the instrument and body, the development of projects from concept to performance, and more in this multi-episode series to be launched in May 2014 in collaboration with Strings Magazine and MusicBridge.

Two x Four: Jennifer Koh & Jaime Laredo perform Bach, Glass, Clyne and Ludwig
Two violinists, Jennifer Koh and Jaime Laredo, perform four double concertos including Bach's Concerto for Two Violins in D minor, BWV 1043, Philip Glass's Echorus, Anna Clyne's Prince of Clouds and David Ludwig's Seasons Lost, on a new recording called Two x Four to be released by Cedille Records on Tuesday, April 29.

Signs, Games + Messages
Signs, Games + Messages, a recording by violinist Jennifer Koh and pianist Shai Wosner.
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Bach and Beyond
November 30, 2012
Jennifer Koh presents a concert from her Bach and Beyond series, a set of three solo violin recitals that strengthen the connections of the Six Sonatas and Partitas by Bach and the present day through a historical journey of solo violin works by various composers.
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WQXR Features
Café Concert: Jennifer Koh
Thursday, January 24, 2013
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How did Jennifer prepare Lutoslawski's Chain II
for her New York Philharmonic subscription debut
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Jennifer Koh on Lutoslawski's "Chain 2"
Jennifer talks about her fascination with Lutoslawski's "Chain 2," which she'll perform Jan 24-26 with the NY Phil. Start the new year out right with tickets to see Jennifer at Lincoln Center!
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Bach and Beyond Part 1
Jennifer Koh discusses her upcoming album, which will be released by Cedille Records October 2012
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Jennifer Koh plays Chaconne from Bach, Partita No. 2 in D minor
The 92nd Street Y announced their 2012-13 season, which includes Jennifer Koh performing part II of her "Bach and Beyond" project on March 2, 2013
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Jennifer Koh's Bach Marathon
Jennifer Koh Discusses Performing The Complete Solo Works of J.S. Bach in a Marathon Concert

Philip Glass' Einstein on the Beach
Live in The Greene Space
From September 4-9, 2012, Q2 Music celebrates the 75th birthday of the iconic, era-defining composer, Philip Glass, with Music of Constant Change — an immersive and interactive, multimedia-rich six-day festival.

Jennifer Koh playing for First Lady Michelle Obama and South Korea's First Lady Kim Yoon-Ok during a musical performance at Annandale High School in Annandale, Va., Thursday, Oct. 13, 2011.

Two x Four: Jennifer Koh and Jaime Laredo
Jennifer Koh and Jaime Laredo discuss their upcomign collaboration
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Two x Four
Interview with Violinists Jennifer Koh, Jaime Laredo and Composer Anna Clyne, Live at 9
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Two x Four: David Ludwig
David discusses his new composition for two violins and orchestra for Jennifer Koh and Jaime Laredo.
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Two x Four: Anna Clyne
Anna discusses her new composition for two violins and orchestra for Jennifer Koh and Jaime Laredo.
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Rhapsodic Musings

Jennifer Koh with Chicago Symphony, 11 years old
Jennifer Koh's debut at age 11 with the Chicago Symphony, playing Paganini Violin Concerto No. 1