Meng-Chun Chi
viola
Meng-Chun Chi, violist, originally from Taiwan, has been
in the United States of America since 1988. Dr. Chi received
her Bachelor of Music degree from Oberlin Conservatory, where
she was a student of Jeffrey Irvine and Lynne Ramsey. She
studied with Robert Vernon, Principal Violist of the Cleveland
Orchestra, while completing her Masters of Music degree at
the Cleveland Institute of Music. In January 2003, Dr. Chi
received her Doctor of Musical Arts degree from Rutgers University,
where she studied with Michael Tree (the violist of the Guarneri
String Quartet) and Paul Neubauer.
Dr. Chi has participated in numerous music festivals such
as the Banff Centre for the Arts, Juilliard String Quartet
Seminar, New York String Seminar, the Young Artist Quartet
Program at the Boston University Tanglewood Institute, and
the Encore String School. She has been a member of the New
Jersey-based Amabile String Quartet since 1998. The quartet
has appeared in several concert series on the east coast,
and served as the Quartet in Residence at Rutgers University
from 2000-2002. In New Jersey, she had played with Riverside
Symphonia, Princeton Pro Musica, and Princeton Symphony Orchestra.
Currently, Dr. Chi is the Assistant Professor of viola at
Southern Illinois University Carbondale. She also serves as
a faculty member at Vermont Youth Orchestra's Reveille! Music
Festival. As an active chamber musician, she has collaborated
with the Cavani String Quartet, Hungarian Pianists Adam Fellegi
and Gabor Eckhardt, American violinist Misha Rosenker among
others. This past May, she played a concert titled "All
American Contemporary Music", which was broadcast live
for the Hungarian Radio Bartok. She is a member of the Illinois
Symphony Orchestra (Springfield, IL), and Southern Illinois
Symphony Orchestra.
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