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Chen Zhao
orchestral training
Violinist Chen Zhao joined the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra in August 2000. Since then he has participated in highly acclaimed performances and recordings of Mahler's Symphonies and the Keeping Score PBS documentary films under the direction of Michael Tilson Thomas. Chen has toured throughout the United States, Europe, and Asia, and performed at prestigious festivals such as Ravinia, La Jolla, Santa Fe, San Juan Islands, Evian and Lucerne Festivals. He has served as concertmaster of the New World Symphony and the Round Top Festival Orchestra, and appeared as a soloist with the Curtis Symphony Orchestra and Oslo Chamber Orchestra. He was also a founding member of the Round Top String Quartet. A graduate of the Curtis Institute of Music, San Francisco Conservatory of Music, and Shanghai Conservatory of Music, Chen's teachers include Camilla Wicks, Felix Galimir, Heiichiro Ohyama and Martin Lovett of the Amadeus Quartet. Chen is currently on faculty at the Conservatory, San Francisco Symphony Youth Orchestra, and San Domenico School of Music.
Chen Zhao can be contacted at zolzen@yahoo.com.
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