Min Gu Kang

Min Gu Kang is a baritone saxophone specialist, and he works to expand the repertoire of the baritone saxophone through transcriptions and arrangements of music written for cello and bassoon. His works include Cello and Bassoon Sonatas written by Brahms, Debussy, Mendelssohn, Saint-Saëns and much more. Through his ability to arrange and transcribe, his work is not only limited to the baritone saxophone, it has works for soprano saxophone as well and works for the saxophone quartet including works originally written for string quartets written by Shostakovich, Grieg, Smetana, and more. In his degree, he as worked with all ensembles in the University of Toronto, as well as a quartet concerto with the Wind Symphony as a result of the UofT Winds Concerto Competition. He has visited France and Japan multiple times to receive teachings from world-renown professors such as Hondo Makodo, Claude Delangle, Nicolas Arsenijevic, and much more. He also has visited the Netherlands and Belgium to learn more about the saxophone as well. He has started the Toronto Saxophone Collective with his colleagues to perform regularly and visits France every year working for the European University of Saxophone after attending as a student for two years.