Karen Gomyo was born in Tokyo, Japan and grew up in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, where she started violin lessons at 5 years old.
At the age of 10, she moved to New York City to study at the Juilliard School at the invitation of the pedagogue Dorothy DeLay.
She was also invited to perform at the First Symposium for the Victims of Terrorism held at the United Nations headquarters in New York in 2011.
Karen Gomyo is also acclaimed for her interpretation of the Nuevo Tango music and has worked with Astor Piazzolla’s longtime pianist and tango artist Pablo Ziegler and his partners Hector del Curto (bandoneon), Claudio Ragazzi (electric guitar), and Pedro Giraudo (double bass).
[3] Her teachers and mentors have included Mauricio Fuks, Dorothy DeLay, Donald Weilerstein, and cellist Heinrich Schiff.