- Violist Hsiang-Hsin Ching Joins The Philadelphia Orchestra 2025-03-14Violist Hsiang-Hsin Ching Joins The Philadelphia Orchestra. TMAF alumna Hsiang-Hsin Ching has been appointed a violist with The Philadelphia Orchestra. Currently pursuing a Bachelor’s degree at Peabody Institute, she received a full scholarship from TMAF in 2020 and the Aspen Music Festival in 2022. In 2023, she was a quartet-in-residence at the Texas Chamber Music Institute, participated ...
- Inaugural Recipient of the Prestigious Harrell Dungey Cello Loan Competition 2023-08-10Inaugural Recipient of the Prestigious Harrell Dungey Cello Loan Competition Lynn Harrell Foundation I Cheng Liu Named as the Inaugural Recipient of the Prestigious Harrell Dungey Cello Loan Competition for 2022 The Taiwanese native & student from The Juilliard School of Music is the first ever winner of the cello loan competition founded by the Lynn Harrell Foundation ...
- Violinist Ya-Chun Yang appointed Concertmaster at Taipei Symphony Orchestra 2023-01-05Violinist Ya-Chun Yang appointed Concertmaster at Taipei Symphony Orchestra Ya-Chun Yang has been appointed as the Concertmaster of the Taipei Symphony Orchestra. Yang graduated from New England Conservatory and Taipei National University of the Arts. Yang has won top prizes in numerous competitions, including the 1st Professor Shu-Te Sylvia Lee Violin Competition and she was the winner ...
- Metropolitan Opera welcomes violinist Angela Wee as its principal associate concertmaster 2022-10-26Metropolitan Opera welcomes violinist Angela Wee as its principal associate concertmaster the Strad The violinist auditioned for the position the day after flying back from a six-week tour of Asia American violinist Angela Wee has been appointed as principal associate concertmaster of the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra. ’I am still processing the news,’ Wee told The Violin Channel. ’It all ...
- 2022 International Violin Competition of Indianapolis 2022-09-242022 International Violin Competition of Indianapolis THE VIOLIN CHANNEL28-year-old VC Young Artist Sirena Huang from the United States has just minutes ago been awarded the Gold Medal at the 2022 International Violin Competition of Indianapolis (IVCI). A graduate of The Juilliard School and Yale University, where she studied with Stephen Clapp, Sylvia Rosenberg, Itzhak Perlman and Hyo Kang, Sirena is a former major prize winner at the Elmar ...