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Glen Ellyn's Jennifer Koh premieres modern takes on Paganini at Northwestern's Winter Chamber Festival / Chicago Tribune

Jennifer Koh tackles ambitious contemporary projects designed to connect performers, audiences and living composers in mutually beneficial ways. In so doing, the Glen Ellyn-born virtuosa is adding substantially to the violin repertory: To date, she has given the premieres of more than 60 works written expressly for her. "Shared Madness," the two-part program Koh presented Sunday at Northwestern University's Pick-Staiger Concert Hall to conclude the 22nd annual Bienen School of Music Winter Chamber Music Festival, marks another in a series of collaborative ventures involving her and what she calls "my community of composers."
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