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Chinese-American violinist Michael Shih, in his fourth season
as Concertmaster of the Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra, has performed
throughout the United States and his native Taiwan, as well as
on tours of Canada, France, Germany, Costa Rica, Honduras, Japan
and Korea. A United States Presidential Scholar in the Arts, he
was a winner in the Naumburg International Violin Competition
and Artists International’s Auditions, the latter award
resulting in his New York debut recital at Carnegie’s Weill
Recital Hall in 1992. He has appeared with the Los Angeles Philharmonic
at the Hollywood Bowl, the Little Orchestra Society at Avery Fisher
Hall, the Williamsburg Symphonia, New York Youth Symphony, San
Pedro Sula Symphony in Honduras, Taipei City Symphony at Taiwan’s
National Concert Hall, and with the symphony orchestras of Fort
Worth, Hartford, New Amsterdam and Long Beach, among others. He
has also made a solo appearance at the prestigious Chiehshou Hall
Concert at the Office of the President of Taiwan.
An avid performer of chamber music, he has collaborated with
such artists as Leon Fleisher, Sharon Isbin, Jaime Laredo,
Cho-Liang
Lin, Yo-Yo Ma, Michael Tree and Charles Wadsworth. From 1992
to 2002, he was first violinist of the Whitman Quartet, formerly
graduate quartet-in-residence at The Juilliard School and winner
of the Naumburg Chamber Music and Catherine Filene Shouse Debut
Artists awards. Music festival appearances include Aspen, Bard,
Chamber Music Northwest, Chautauqua, La Jolla, Lincoln Center,
Ravinia, Spoleto USA and Mostly Mozart. He has also appeared
at
the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center.
Shih has been heard frequently on National Public Radio’s “Performance
Today”, and has appeared on NBC’s “Today Show” and
Japan’s NHK Television. He holds Bachelor and Master of
Music degrees from The Juilliard School, where he was under the
tutelage of Dorothy DeLay and Hyo Kang. He has also studied with
Chiu-Sen Chen, Masao Kawasaki, Shue-Tee Lee and Margaret Pardee.
He was on the violin faculty at the Lucy Moses School for Music
and Dance in New York from 1995 to 2001. Shih plays a 1710 Antonio
Stradivari violin, generously on loan to the Fort Worth Symphony
Orchestra Association by Mr. and Mrs. William S. Davis of Fort
Worth, Texas.
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