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Gallery Talk: Music

Talk/Lecture
Early American Gallery
FREE
No Ticket Required
A group of people looking at art on a wall

Please join us this Saturday to discuss art and music and to hear from Er-Gene Kahng. Kahng is a violinist, researcher and educator whose work came to the fore through her advocacy of the American classical composer, Florence Price. This talk is open to the public.

Free, no tickets required.

About the Speaker

Er-Gene Kahng, is a violinist, researcher, and professor whose work came to light through her advocacy of African American composer, Florence Price. Er-Gene is concertmaster of the Fort Smith Symphony Orchestra and the Arkansas Philharmonic Orchestra; she has been involved with the North Mississippi, New Haven, Albany, Lancaster, Eastern Connecticut, Tulsa, Baton Rouge Symphonies and the Civic Orchestra of Chicago. Er-Gene aims to continue the work of equity, diversity, inclusion and belonging by exploring the ways contemporary American classical music can intersect with, and highlight, forgotten narratives of the past and thus shape the musical values of the present and future.

HanSori violinist Er-Gene Kahng