Karen Gomyo has performed with many of the most renowned orchestras around the world. Having attended the Sarasota Music Festival as a student, we are pleased to welcome her back to Sarasota as an accomplished and internationally acclaimed professional soloist. Born in Tokyo in 1982, Karen Gomyo moved to Montreal in 1984. She began to play in public at the age of five, and after playing for the noted teacher Dorothy DeLay, she was invited to study on a full scholarship at the Juilliard School. She continued her studies at the University of Indiana/Bloomington and today is studying at the New England Conservatory of Music. Karen Gomyo won the 1997 Young Concert Artists International Auditions, and in 1998 became the youngest artist ever to be presented in the Young Concert Artists Series in New York.