Claire Chan, Violinist
Claire Chan's award-winning chamber music groups
include the Essex Quartet, the Beijing String Quartet
and Chamber Players and the Kneisel Trio. Her solo and
chamber performances have been broadcast on ABC and
NBC television and Beijing Central TV as well as on
radio stations WNYC, WQXR and NPR. She has performed
in the Forbidden City, Beijing Concert Hall, and
Lincoln Center.
Dr. Chan earned a full scholarship from the Juilliard
School where she completed both her M.M. and D.M.A.
degrees. She received an undergraduate degree in
Neuroscience from Brown University.
She taught at the Juilliard School as an assistant to
Professor Joseph Fuchs and the Juilliard String
Quartet. She also taught at the Beijing Central
Conservatory and Capital Normal University. She
currently teaches at the Third Street Music School
Settlement in New York City.
Claire Chan has concertized throughout the U.S. and
China. Tom Strini of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
wrote, "Chan got it exactly: It came out like a love
song sung through a lump in the throat, and it was
music to bring tears to the eyes." Lyman Leathers of
the Delaware Gazette wrote, she has "...a wonderfully
warm and relaxed sound with an often robust
intensity."
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Ching Chen Juhl, Violist
Ching Chen Juhl has performed throughout North
America, Brazil, France, Switzerland, Hong Kong, and
China in solo recitals, chamber ensembles and major
orchestras. Ching has performed as a soloist with the
symphony orchestras of the Phoenix, Millennium
Chamber, the Indianapolis Chamber, the Terre Haute,
and the National Repertory. She has won numerous
awards including a $10,000 prize at the
Giuranna International Viola Competition, Outstanding
Musical Performance Certificate, the Herriman Music
Scholarship, and the Starr Fellowship. She also
performed as a member of the Phoenix Symphony for
seven years.
Pursuing her passion for chamber music, Ching founded
the Ching Ching Ensemble in 1993. She produced,
directed and performed multi-media chamber music
concerts in the United States and China. She has also
performed chamber music at the Mainly Mozart, Grand
Teton, Colorado, Spoleto, Encore School for Strings
and Evian International Music Festivals.
Born in China, Ching came to the United States in 1985
after graduating from the Shanghai Conservatory of
Music. She received a full scholarship from Indiana
University where she earned a Master of Music Degree.
Her major teachers were Kim Kashkashian, Csaba
Erdelyi, Xi-Di Shen, and Yu-Shen Wu. Currently, Ching serves as the music director for the Long Island University Orchestra/C.W. Post campus and on the music faculty at St. Joseph's College.
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Ling Cao, Cellist
"Ling Cao is a very talented, accomplished cellist ... a seasoned performer ... in full command of her instrument and at one with the music; ... technically effortless, tonally warm ... clearly very musical." From a review by Edith Eisler of Ling's New York debut recital at Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall.
Ling Cao began her solo career in China where she won the China National Solo Competition and began recording for China Records at the age of seventeen. She participated in the Melbourne International Chamber Music Competition and went on to win the Artists International Award in New York.
Ling was a member of the renowned Shanghai Ladies String Quartet and taught at the Shanghai Conservatory of Music. She also performed as soloist and principal cellist of Tiedaobing Orchestra. She authored "The Art of Cello Fingerings," published by the Shanghai Conservatory Music Press. She currently teaches at the music department of St. Ann's School.
Ling holds Master's Degrees from both the Manhattan
School of Music and the Shanghai Conservatory of Music
as well as a Professional Studies Certificate from the
Manhattan School of Music. She studied with David
Geber, Zara Nelsova, Mstislav Rostropovich in master
class, Situ Shiwen, Qian Yishan and Lin Yingrong.
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