Tina Qu
Violinist
Tina Qu, violinist a graduate from both Curtis and Juilliard. She is an active soloist, teacher, orchestra and chamber musician. She has appeared as a soloist with orchestras including Los Angeles Philharmonic, National Orchestra of China, Los Angeles Virtuosi Chamber Orchestra, Liao Ning State Opera Orchestra, Chamber Orchestra of Philadelphia, Claremont Symphony, American Youth Symphony and West Chester Symphony. She has also performed in many international music festivals including Verbier in Switzerland, Aspen Festival, Pacific Music Festival in Japan and the New York String Seminar.
Her performance journey has taken her in Asia, United States and Europe. She has collaborated with the conductors including Riccardo Muti, Simon Rattle, Andre Previn, James Levin, Wolfgang Sawallisch, Herbert Blomstedt, Kurt Mazur, Christoph Eschenbach, Michael Tilson Thomas, Gustavo Dudamel and James Conlon. Among the artists, they are Placido Domingo, Mstislav Rostropovich, Yo-Yo Ma, Gil Shaham, Hilary Hahn, Anne-Sophie Mutter, Peter Serkin, Leon Fleisher, Andre Watts and Evgeny Kissin, Andrea Bocelli and others.
Fall 2021, Tina joined Interlochen Arts Academy as the violin faculty and formerly she taught at the Colburn School, Hong Kong Academy of Performing Arts, Chinese University of Hong Kong. She still maintains an active performance schedule when she can with LA Philharmonic, LA Opera, Detroit Symphony as well as Detroit Opera. Tina Chang Qu was born and raised in China and came to US on full scholarship to study with Prof. Alice Schoenfeld at USC. She was one of the last pupils of Dorothy DeLay at Juilliard. Her teachers also included Felix Galimir, Jaime Laredo, Ida Kavafian and Pamela Frank and Zhen Shan Wang. Over the years, she has been interviewed with numerous of Press and Medias, including Panda Channel TV, KCET in Los Angeles, Los Angeles Channel 18, American Voice Radio, Chinese World Journey, China Star, Beverly Hills News, and Channel Jade in Hong Kong. In her spare time, Tina enjoys outdoors, dancing and working out.