Er-Gene Kahng, Assistant Professor of music, joined the faculty of University of Arkansas in 2007.  She studied at the R.D. Colburn School of Performing Arts in Los Angeles with Richard Schwabe and Chan Ho Yun, and received degrees from UCLA, Yale, and Northwestern, studying with Mark Kaplan, Erick Friedman, Syoko Aki, the Tokyo String Quartet and Almita Vamos.  Her performances have garnered many accolades, and she has appeared in numerous masterclasses with important pedagogues and performers, including Zakhar Bron, Andres Cardenas, Lorand Fenyves, the Fine Arts Quartet, Pamela Frank, Jacques Israelievitch, and Mathias Tacke.  Kahng has served as a cultural and musical ambassador to Hiroshima, Japan, Port-au-Prince, Haiti and Johannesburg, South Africa.  Before joining the faculty at University of Arkansas, she taught at the Neighborhood Music School in New Haven, Connecticut and was a member of the New Haven Symphony Orchestra.  Kahng's dissertation provides a paradigmatic/syntagmatic motivic analysis of Krzysztof Penderecki's Violin Sonata no. 2.  She is a member of the Fulbright Piano Trio.