About 

10-year-old Ria Kang began her musical journey at the tender age of 4. She is a student of Catherine Cho at Juilliard, having been accepted into the Pre-College program at the age of 7. She previously studied with Sheryl Staples, Joseph Lin, and Marvin Moon. Ria was a first-prize winner at the 2024 Arthur Grumiaux Int’l Violin Competition and has won first place in various other competitions, including the Camerata Artists Int’l Competition, New York Int’l Music Festival & Concours, New York Young Virtuoso Competition, Music Int’l Grand Prix, and Philadelphia Int’l Music Festival Concerto Competition.

Ria has performed at renowned venues, including Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, and Merkin Hall, having first performed at Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall at the age of 6, and made her orchestral debut with the Seocho Philharmonia at the age of 9. In 2026, she performed at the opening ceremony of the World AI Film Festival in Cannes, France, and was invited by the Concours musical international de Montréal to perform in its Mini Violini concert in Montréal, Québec. The year before, she took part in Juilliard’s Starling-DeLay Symposium on Violin Studies as a student artist. In 2024, she performed at the Juilliard Celebration concert at the Peter Jay Sharp Theater and appeared as a guest artist at the Youth America Grand Prix 25th Anniversary Gala at the David H. Koch Theater at Lincoln Center.

Ria has attended prestigious music programs such as Tibor Varga Academy, Sounding Point Academy, Heifetz Institute, and Philadelphia Int’l Music Festival. She has also taken lessons and masterclasses with renowned violinists such as Randall Goosby, Cornelia Heard, Pavel Vernikov, Svetlana Makarova, Bob Lipsett, Masao Kawasaki, Richard Lin, Xiao Wang, and Kimberly Fisher.

Beyond music, Ria excels academically, earning High Honors in the 2022–2023 talent search conducted by Johns Hopkins University’s Center for Talented Youth. In her leisure time, she enjoys acting, reading, writing, drawing, listening to classical music, and playing with her Maltese, Milk.