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Violin NACO Mentorship 2023

Yu Kai Sun

Los Angeles California United States

Last updated: April 24, 2023

Yu Kai Sun is a Master of Music degree candidate at the Colburn Conservatory of Music, where she studies violin with Martin Beaver. She was the recipient of the 2022 AIDA Funds of Jeunesses Musicales Canada and has been an active performer across Canada, the USA, Europe and Asia. She was appointed co-concertmaster of the 2022 Pacific Music Festival Orchestra, and concertmaster of the 2021 Schleswig-Holstein Musik Festival Orchestra.

Ms. Sun performs on a 1917 Carl Becker violin on loan from The Colburn Collection, and a Benoit Rolland bow on loan from violinist Anne Akiko Meyers through the Colburn School.

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NAC Orchestra Mentorship Program

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