Karen Gomyo

Violinist Karen Gomyo is celebrated as a “first-rate artist” with “flawless command” and elegance. Her 2025–26 season features returns to the New York Philharmonic, National Symphony Orchestra Taiwan, and Rome’s Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, alongside debuts with the SWR Symphonieorchester Stuttgart and Malaysian Philharmonic. Recent highlights include performances with the Chicago Symphony, Gewandhausorchester Leipzig, and Czech Philharmonic. A champion of living composers, Gomyo has given U.S. premieres of works by Samy Moussa and Matthias Pintscher, and premiered a chamber concerto by Samuel Adams commissioned for her by the Chicago Symphony. She is also a noted interpreter of Astor Piazzolla’s nuevo tango, recently releasing A Piazzolla Trilogy. Gomyo’s chamber music collaborators include Leif Ove Andsnes and Emmanuel Pahud. Born in Tokyo and raised in Montreal and New York, she studied under Dorothy DeLay at The Juilliard School and later with Mauricio Fuks and Donald Weilerstein. She also served as violinist and narrator for the NHK documentary The Mysteries of the Supreme Violin.