J. S. Bach: Suite No. 3 for Solo Viola in C Major, BWV 1009
G. P. Telleman: Fantasy No. 2 for Solo Flute
Claude Debussy: Syrinx for Solo Flute
Sergei Rachmaninoff: Prelude No. 4 in D Major, Op. 23 for Solo Harp
Claude Debussy:
First Arabesque for Solo Harp
Trio for Flute Viola and Harp
Originally from Southern California, Susan Kang earned a Bachelor of Music at Northwestern University’s Bienen School of Music and a Master of Music and Artist Diploma at Rice University’s Shepherd School of Music. Her principal teachers have included Leone Buyse and John Thorne.
Kang joined the San Francisco Ballet Orchestra as a principal flute in 2022. She was previously a principal flute for the Houston Ballet Orchestra and served as acting principal flute for the Houston Grand Opera Orchestra.
Kang has worked under the direction of prominent conductors such as Thomas Ades, Stéphane Denève, Andris Nelsons, Gianandrea Noseda, and Klaus Mäkelä. She spent summers at the Aspen Music Festival, Bowdoin International Music Festival, Krzyżowa Chamber Music Festival, Tanglewood Music Center, and Verbier Festival Orchestra in Switzerland. An avid chamber musician, Kang has collaborated with David Bowlin, Jon Kimura Parker, and Radovan Vlatković, among other esteemed artists.
Kang has won first prizes in the Donald Peck International Flute Competition and the Seattle Flute Club’s Young Artist Competition. Her extensive solo engagements have included her live radio broadcasted recital at the Dame Myra Hess Memorial Series in Chicago, and her performance of Einojuhani Rautavaara’s Flute Concerto Dances with the Winds (Op.69) as a soloist with Shepherd School Symphony and Chamber Orchestra.
Molly Langr is a freelance harpist based in San Francisco. In addition to frequent performances with the San Francisco Symphony and the San Francisco Ballet, she has played with the New Century Chamber Orchestra, the San Francisco Opera Orchestra, and many other ensembles across Northern California. She has toured Europe and Southern California with the SF Symphony and can be heard on many of their recordings. Beyond her work in California, she frequently performs with the Utah Symphony and the Boise Philharmonic Orchestra, where she formerly held a one-year position.
Molly has been a featured soloist with the Utah Symphony and the National Repertory Orchestra. Summer music festival appearances include Classical Tahoe, the New Hampshire Music Festival, Festival Mosaic, the Britt Festival, and the Mendocino Music Festival. Molly holds a bachelor’s degree from the San Francisco Conservatory of Music and a master’s degree from the Shepherd School of Music at Rice University.
An active Bay Area violist, Elizabeth Prior is the principal violist with the Santa Rosa Symphony and a violist with the New Century Chamber Orchestra. Prior is also a season substitute with the San Francisco Ballet and is the associate principal violist with the Marin Symphony. She performs regularly with the San Francisco Opera Orchestra and the San Francisco Symphony. Other orchestral credits include Freiburg Philharmonic (Associate principal) and Cape Town Symphony. She has worked with the Pittsburg Symphony, Südwestfunk, Stuttgart Radio, Basel Symphony, and the Mannheim Opera Orchestras
A native of South Africa, she was a prizewinner in the International String Competition in Pretoria and debuted at Carnegie Hall with the Russian Chamber Orchestra.
She toured regularly as a soloist with the Chamber Ensemble of Cologne in France and was recently featured with the Santa Rosa Symphony.
Other solo and chamber music engagements include Amelia Island Chamber Music Festival; Sun Valley Summer Symphony, Midsummer Mozart, and “Chamber Music San Francisco” She is a member of the Farallon Quintet. She performs regularly on solo recitals in the San Francisco Bay Area and performed internationally for more than a decade with Maestro Donald Runnicles on the piano.
Prior recently launched her new album, “Viola Romance” with Miles Graber, piano.