Hae-Sun Kang is a multi-faceted violinist whose professional life is largely consecrated to contemporary music, be it as a soloist, ensemble player, or pedagogue. Hae-Sun Kang, born in South Korea into a family of musicians, started the violin at the age of three. At 15 she began her studies at the Conservatoire de Paris (CNSMDP) in the class of Christian Ferras. She won several international prizes (Rodolfo Lipizer in Italy, Carl Flesch in London, Yehudi Menuhin in Paris, the Montréal International Competition, and the ARD Competition in Munich). She was then accepted into the Ensemble Intercontemporain as a soloist and was able to begin to realize her desire to perform contemporary ensemble repertory. It is here that she met Pierre Boulez and their collaboration brought about the creation of Anthèmes 2 for violin and electronics.

Hae-Sun Kang is first and foremost an active interpreter in the contemporary music scene, in France as well as internationally. Her career has led her to perform as soloist on stages throughout the world, including Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, Herkulessai in Munich, the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, the Musikverein in Vienna, the Philharmonie of Paris, Royal Festival Hallin London, but also on the stages of the festivals of Lucerne, Salzburg, the Messiaen Festival in Pays de la Meije, the Ultraschall Festival of Berlin, the Venice Biennial, the Stuttgart ECLAT new music festival, the ManiFeste at IRCAM in Paris, Musica Nova in Helsinki, the Springtime of the Arts in Monte Carlo, the Musica festival in Strasbourg, as well as on the stages of the Munich Opera, the Bouffes du Nord theater and the Opera Garnier. She performs many concertos of the contemporary repertoire with international orchestras, such as the Philharmonic Orchestra of Radio France, the Philharmonia Orchestra of London, the orchestra of the Gulbenkian Fondation in Lisbon, the Belgian National orchestra, the radio symphony Orchestra of Vienna, the Germany Symphony Orchestra of berlin, the Seoul Philharmonic Orchestra, the SWR of Stuttgart, the Bavarian Radio orchestra and the Orchestra of the Suisse Romande.

An avid experimenter, curious about novelty, she interprets works of very different aesthetics and enjoys performing pieces which allow her to put her instrument to play in varied contexts, from concertos for orchestra to works for violin solo, as well as pieces for violin and electronics and chamber music. An eclectic artist who performs contemporary repertoire in der daily life as if it were the most important classical and romantic repertoire for the violin, her awareness of the continuity of musical traditions and of the links which tie today`s composers with the past guide her interpretive choices. To make her listener feel the expressivity of contemporary music is thus a central goal of her work.

Her impact on the composers with whom she collaborates and the richness of her violin playing which seduces them as well as the public – the composer Unsuk Chin notes her sense of intonation her crystalline tone - have made Hae-Sun Kang the dedicatee and the artist to premier numerous works, including the concertos Quad (1997) for violin and ensemble by Pascal Dusanin… prisme/incidences... by Michael Jarrell is two versions for violin and orchestra and with ensemble (1998), the Concerto pour violin et ensemble of Ivan Fedele (1999), Synapse for violin and large orchestra by Philippe Manoury (2019), Secret d`un paysage by Edith Lejet and Peintre (et) Monde by Hiromichi Kitazume for violin, baroque ensemble and traditional Japanese instruments (2013), Izaaj for violin and ensemble by Benjamin Attahir (2014), Marèh for violin and ensemble by Matthias Pintscher (2016), the Concerto pour violin et ensemble baroque by Yan Maresz.

Transmission is another important axis of the career of Hae-Sun Kang. She believes strongly in her ideal of forming future generations of musicians, which she accomplishes with her work in the Ensemble Intercontemporain and at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et Danse in Paris where she is the reference for students in the DAI (Diplôme d`Artiste Interprète) programme, teaching chamber music as well as the contemporary music elective.

Hae-Sun Kang was named Chevalier (knight) by the Order of Arts and Letters by the French cultural minister Aurélie Filpetti in 2014.