She was accepted with full scholarship to the prestigious Curtis Institute of Music at the age of 11, and at just 17, she graduated with a Bachelor in Music as one of the youngest graduates in its history. Upon graduation, Ms Kang captured the Grand-Prize as well as the "Best Interpretation” prize at the CBC Competition for Young Performers, Canada's most honoured competition.
Ms Kang gave a solo performance for former Canadian prime-minister Brian Mulroney when she was nine and performed for all of the major Ambassadors of Canada. She has also had the privilege to perform in front of former US president Bill Clinton and Korean president Noh Moo Hyun.

Ms Kang has collaborated with distinguished artists such as Claude Frank, Miriam Fried, David Geringas, Gary Hoffmann, Lynn Harrell, Cho-Liang Lin, Kyung-Wha Chung, Leon Fleisher, Richard Goode, Bruno Canino, Barry Douglas, Gene Bertoncini, Eugenia Zuckerman, David Soyer, Marcy Rosen, Warren Jones, Isidore Cohen, Peter Wiley, Sigfried Palm, Chee-Yun, Samuel Rhodes, Felix Galimir, Samuel Wong, Bramwell Tovey, Nurhan Arman, Jean-Francois Rivest, Alistair Willis,Yoav Talmi, Nance Geum, Mario Bernardi, and Boris Brott. She has performed at major festivals as Marlboro, Ravinia, Bargemusic, Manchester, Aspen, Evian, Banff, Orford, Ste. Petronille, the Ottawa International Chamber Music Festival, the Pablo Casals Festival, Lenaudiere International Festival, the 'Focus’ Festival in New York, the Northern Lights Festival in Mexico, and has performed and given master classes at the 'Sean Jackson and Friends Festival’ for the development of classical music in Barbados. She performed in a special concert celebrating the inauguration of the Korean-American Jewish-American Forum (KAJA). As a member of the renowned ensemble Sejong, Ms Kang toured Asia and America and was presented as soloist and concert-master with Sejong in performances across the US, Korea, the UK, France and at the launching of the Great Mountains Festival and School in Korea, where she also coached chamber music each summer.

Ms Kang frequently collaborates with living composers and has worked closely with notable composers, Leon Kirchner, Richard Danielpour, Alexander Goehr, Huang Ruo, Michael Patterson, and Pierre Boulez, with whom, after an intense week of collaboration, lead to a successful culminating concert. Canadian composer, Michael Matthews, has written a violin concerto for her. Ms Kang's apparent expression of music is the result of a strong influence of the diverse and rich culture of her upbringing in Canada. She continues to broaden her creativity through improv and writing, and frequently collaborates with diverse musicians and bands including that of her own 'The Simple Machines' comprised of Wayan Zoey on drums, Alan Denniberg on bass, Russ Kaplan on keys, and Judy on violin and vocals. Most recently, she was invited personally by Lady GaGa to be a part of her world tour for 2010-2011.

A founding member of the piano quartet 'Made In Canada', formed at the Banff Center in 2006, the group immediately earned recognition in their native Canada and have received scholarships and awards including the eminent 2006 Galaxie Rising Stars Award. They were featured in Chatelaine Magazine for Women as one of 80 women to watch.

At the age of 19, Ms Kang was granted the Lily Foldes Scholarship from the Juilliard School, and graduated with a Masters Degree. She became the first graduate, with high honours, of the prestigious Artist Diploma at the Manhattan School of Music, which holds the distinction of the highest level of education, significantly above all other programs. Her mentors include Sylvia Rosenberg, Robert Mann, Lorand Fenyves, Aaron Rosand, and Felix Galimir. She won many competitions locally, nationally and internationally such as the Grand-Prize of the Canadian Music Competition several years in a row, and top prizes at the Nielsen, Dong-A, Kreisler, and Naumburg International Violin Competitions.

Ms Kang has been the subject of newspaper and magazine articles and has appeared on CBC, CNN, and MTV. She has released two critically acclaimed CDs on the CBC Records label, which have been nominated for awards such as the Opus award and the Gemini in her native Canada. She is also frequently heard live and through broadcasts on national and international radio such as CBC (Canada), BBC (London), and on WQXR (New York). Ms Kang has received numerous and continued support from the Alberta Foundation for the Arts, the Winspear Foundation, the Anne Burrows Foundation for Young Musicians, and the Canada Council for the Arts, among others. She won the 'Sylva Gelber' Prize given to the most talented musician under 30. In recognition of her outstanding achievement and contribution to the arts, she is featured as an accomplished artist and inspiration in a book entitled Korea and Canada: A Shared History. She takes part in many benefit events and visits public schools, daycare, hospitals, and nursing homes through music outreach.

Ms Kang is a mentor and artist for Young Audiences (YA), the nation's largest nonprofit arts in education organization. She is also an artist and ambassador for WorldVision, a Christian relief and development organization dedicated to helping children and their communities worldwide reach their full potential by tackling the causes of poverty. Ms Kang holds the distinction as the biggest winner of the Canada Council Instrument Bank Competition. She has performed on a 1747 "Palmason" Januarius Gagliano, generously awarded by the Canada Council. Most recently, as the top prize winner, she has been awarded the 1689 "Baumgartner" Stradivarius, on generous loan from the Canada Council for the Arts.