Kristine Galano – Laureate – Senior Artist 2024
Kristine ‘KayCee’ Galano has established herself as one of the leading young violinists of her generation. She has performed concertos with orchestras in Europe, China, North America, and in her native Philippines. She was a prizewinner at the 2020 KF Wieniawski Violin Competition. She recently participated at the 2022 International Violin Competition of Indianapolis and 2024 Queen Elisabeth Competition. KayCee made her Carnegie Hall debut on October, 2019, performing all 6 Bach solo sonatas. In 2018, she participated at the 1st International Viktor Tretyakov Violin Competition. Later that year, she was invited to perform the Bruch Violin Concerto with the Philippine Philharmonic Orchestra in her native country, the Philippines.
She also performed with the ABS-CBN Philharmonic Orchestra with Mozart’s A Major Violin Concerto and other works in 2017. In the same year, while attending the Weimar Masterclasses in Germany, she was one of the few students selected to play with the Jena Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Maestro Markus Frank. She was featured on National Public Radio’s “From The Top” with Christopher O’Riley at age 12. At age 14, she toured the USA with pianist Rohan DeSilva and China with the Starling Chamber Orchestra. As an avid chamber musician, KayCee Galano spent summers at the Perlman Music Program, Kneisel Hall, Queenstown Violin Summer School in New Zealand, Great Wall International Music Academy in Beijing, Innsbrook Institute of Music and Bowdoin International Music Festival. Ms. Galano studies at the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music with Kurt Sassmannshaus.