Bio

Kristine Clair “KayCee” Uchi Galano has established herself as one of the leading young violinists of her generation. She has performed concertos with orchestras in Europe, China, North America, and in her native Philippines.

Highlights of KayCee Galano's 2021/22 season include winning first prize at the 2021 Mary Lane Memorial Violin Competition participating at the 2021 Shanghai Isaac Stern International Violin Competition and the 2022 International Violin Competition of Indianapolis.

KayCee made her Carnegie Hall debut on October, 2019, performing all 6 Bach solo sonatas. In 2018, she participated at the 1st International Viktor Tretyakov Violin Competition. Later that year, she was invited to perform the Bruch Violin Concerto with the Philippine Philharmonic Orchestra with Maestro Yoshikazu Fukumura in her native country, the Philippines. 

In 2017, KayCee Galano performed Mozart's A Major Violin Concerto and other works with the ABS-CBN Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Maestro Gerard Salonga. In the same year, while attending the Weimar Masterclasses in Germany, she was one of the few students selected to play with the Jena Philharmonic Orchestra led by Maestro Markus Frank where she played the Korngold Violin Concerto.

KayCee won First Prize at the Malaysian Youth Music Festival and at the Great Wall Violin Concerto Competition in Beijing, performing the Brahms Violin Concerto. She was featured on National Public Radio’s “From The Top” with Christopher O’Riley at age 12. At age 14, she toured the USA with pianist Rohan DeSilva and China with the Starling Chamber Orchestra.

As an avid chamber musician, KayCee Galano spent summers at the Perlman Music Program, Kneisel Hall, Queenstown Violin Summer School in New Zealand, Great Wall International Music Academy in Beijing, Innsbrook Institute of Music and Bowdoin International Music Festival. 

Ms. Galano studies at the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music with Kurt Sassmannshaus. 

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