American violinist Jennifer Koh has dedicated herself to expanding the contemporary violin repertoire and making classical music more inclusive. She tells Jessie Tu why she commissions so many new works, and discusses her musical relationship with Missy Mazzoli, whose violin concerto Procession, she will perform at the Adelaide Festival.
If you were to ask Jennifer Koh to describe her most acute memory from the height of the pandemic, she’d probably tell you it was the sound of multiple sirens blasting through New York City, where she lives.
“Twenty-four hours a day, never stopping for days and days and days. That was my aural experience,” she says.
The American violinist doesn’t like remembering New York during this time, describing it as...
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