Jonathan Kuo
Violin
Los Angeles born Jonathan Kuo began violin studies before age five and won his first competition one year later. He received his Bachelor of Music from Juilliard in 2009 and Master of Music from the Manhattan School of Music in 2011. Post professional studies, Kuo joined the New World Symphony in Miami Beach as a violin fellow and performed with the Stavanger Symfoniorkester in Norway. In the fall of 2016, Kuo joined the Jacksonville Symphony violin section and served as Acting Associate Principal Second Violin for the 2021/22 Season.
Kuo has studied and concertized professionally at summer music festivals including Académie-Festival des Arcs, Astoria, Aspen, Britten-Pears, Pacific, Music Masters Course Japan and Schleswig-Holstein. A former member of the Colorado Music Festival in Boulder, Colorado, Kuo joined the Des Moines Metro Opera violin section in 2023 and will lead as Concertmaster beginning in 2024. His major teachers include Lu-Bin Yu, Bing Wang, Masao Kawasaki and Yoko Takebe.
