Boram Kang joined the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra in September 2015. Ms. Kang graduated from Eastman School of Music with a bachelor’s degree in music studying with Charles Castleman.  While at Eastman, she won a Concerto Competition that earned Ms. Kang the opportunity to play Glazunov’s Violin Concerto with the National Symphony Orchestra. She attended the Cleveland Institute of Music for her master’s degree studying with William Preucil and attended the Carnegie Mellon University for her Performance Residency Program with Andres Cardenes.

Ms. Kang was a Fellow at the Tanglewood Music Festival during the summer of 2006 and was a member of Pacific Music Festival in Sapporo, Japan in 2001, 2002, and 2005. She recently won a position in the Festival Orchestra of Lincoln Center in New York City for the summer.

Prior to joining the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, she was an Interim Assistant Concertmaster of the Louisville Orchestra in 2012, and a fixed fourth chair of the Colorado Symphony in 2013 through 2015.

Boram started playing the violin at the age of five and moved to the United States to continue her studies.  She attended the Peabody Conservatory Preparatory Division and was a student of Leri Slutsky who was a veteran second violinist with the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra for over 25 years.