ABOUT

Celine Kang is a guitarist, composer, and improviser based in New York. Her work is best described as raw, confronting, and honest. Celine has started her career in music as a recording artist and performing live -  exploring styles of music such as Gospel, R&B, and Rock. She is currently focusing on improvised music, working with diverse musicians in NYC; as well as performing her own projects of original compositions.

During her time at The New School’s performing arts college, she studied and worked with artists such as Steve Cardenas, Joe Morris, Brian Marsella, Darius Jones, Mary Halvorson, Anna Webber, Ches Smith, and more, focusing on studies in improvisation and composition. 

Celine’s early musical life was heavily influenced in religious music and textural music such as musique concrete and soundtracks; creating a unique approach to music not only in traditional sense but also as sound itself. Her compositions and improvisational approach reflects these transparently in a way that embraces both atonality, tonality and textural qualities of sound in its rawest form. 

Her recent work includes her two bands, RedEye and BlackEye, which performed her original compositions; they were performed in venues such as Shapeshifter, Ibeam Brooklyn, Nublu, and more. The group OCTOPI that she co-leads also had its first performance at The Stone. Celine also performs as a member of John Zorn's Cobra ensemble. 

Alongside the music, Celine is continuing her work in photography and design. Her photography is often delivering similar perspective with her music - in a way that is honest and natural to herself. She is working for Phonotonic series, organized by Samantha Kochis and Leni Kreienberg; which highlights women and non-binary artists.