{"id":44257,"date":"2017-03-31T19:44:10","date_gmt":"2017-03-31T23:44:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/?p=44257"},"modified":"2017-03-31T19:44:10","modified_gmt":"2017-03-31T23:44:10","slug":"qa-25-questions-for-karen-gomyo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/2017\/03\/31\/qa-25-questions-for-karen-gomyo\/","title":{"rendered":"Q&A | 25 Questions For Karen Gomyo"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Violinist Karen Gomyo (Photo: Gabrielle Revere)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Every so often MT poses 60 questions to a local or visiting artist in Toronto who has made our classical music community that much more interesting. They pick and choose. The minimum response is 20 answers. A kind of Rorschach personality test, if you will.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Recipient of the prestigious Avery Fisher Career Grant in 2008, violinist Karen Gomyo<\/a> established herself with appearances around the world\u00a0including\u00a0the New York Philharmonic, LA Philharmonic, the Danish National Symphony, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic, Tokyo Symphony, and the Sydney Symphony.<\/p>\n

Gomyo is deeply interested in the Nuevo Tango music of Astor Piazzolla, and plays on a 1703 \u201cAurora, ex-Foulis\u201d Stradivarius violin given to her by a private sponsor.<\/p>\n

Readers can hear\u00a0Karen Gomyo perform Beethoven’s Violin Concerto with the Toronto Symphony Orchestra this weekend on Saturday<\/a> and Sunday<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Your favourite sound?<\/h3>\n

Silence<\/p>\n

Your least favourite sound?<\/h3>\n

Ticking of the clock<\/p>\n

Your favourite smells?<\/h3>\n

Flowers<\/p>\n

Your least favourite smells?<\/h3>\n

Cigarette smoke<\/p>\n

First thing that comes to your mind when you think about Toronto?<\/h3>\n

TSO!<\/p>\n

If you could board a plane this afternoon, where would it be taking you?<\/h3>\n

Home<\/p>\n

The three books that you read that made an impact on you in your formative years?<\/h3>\n

Narcissus and Goldmund (Hesse), Lord of the Flies (Golding), The picture of Dorian Gray (Wilde)<\/p>\n

Whose musical style do you covet?<\/h3>\n

David Oistrakh, Yehudi Menuhin, Nathan Milstein<\/p>\n

Where was the last place you traveled to for work or pleasure?<\/h3>\n

Iceland for pleasure<\/p>\n

The clich\u00e9 that you overuse?<\/h3>\n

Life is short<\/p>\n

Shoe of choice?<\/h3>\n

Tango shoes<\/p>\n

The different career path that you could have gone on?<\/h3>\n

Researcher in the field of nature or helping people in some way<\/p>\n

Your ancestry?<\/h3>\n

Japanese French Canadian<\/p>\n

Your three favourite films?<\/h3>\n

Vertigo, Splendor in the Grass, My Neighbor Totoro<\/p>\n

Your most regrettable purchase ever?<\/h3>\n

A pet python I bought when I lost a bet<\/p>\n

The character flaw in others that you can\u2019t abide?<\/h3>\n

Arrogance<\/p>\n

How do you know when you can trust someone?<\/h3>\n

Instinct<\/p>\n

What are you the most proud of?<\/h3>\n

Having wonderful, interesting friends<\/p>\n

What is the best thing about your work?<\/h3>\n

The never-ending journey of discovery<\/p>\n

What is the worst thing about your work?<\/h3>\n

Airports, air travel, jetlag<\/p>\n

The talent that you wish you possessed?<\/h3>\n

Cooking<\/p>\n

What are you listening to as you answer these questions?<\/h3>\n

People talking around me on the airplane<\/p>\n

What musical instrument do you secretly long to play?<\/h3>\n

Bandoneon<\/p>\n

Your favourite word?<\/h3>\n

Gratitude<\/p>\n

The thing that makes you the angriest?<\/h3>\n

People hurting each other<\/p>\n

To read more from our Q&A Series, click HERE<\/u><\/a><\/span>.<\/h3>\n

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Violin dynamo Karen Gomyo answers 25 questions just about her. They’re fun and so is Karen Gomyo for playing along.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":44258,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[6439,5009,63],"tags":[1845],"yst_prominent_words":[],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2017\/03\/Karen-Gomyo-1-credit-Gabrielle-Revere.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9bakr-bvP","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44257"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44257"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44257\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46268,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44257\/revisions\/46268"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44258"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44257"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=44257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}