Violin with Sin-Tung C.

SIN-TUNG CHIU Sin-Tung Chiu won prizes in violin and chamber music in Hong Kong at the age of 12 as a student of Chung-On Chan. He later studied with Denes Zsigmondy and Anneliese Nissen in Ammerland, Germany. Sin-Tung Chiu is an alumnus of Dartmouth College, The Juilliard School, Teachers College of Columbia University, Meadowmount Summer School of Music and the Aspen Music Festival. At The Juilliard School, he studied violin with Dorothy DeLay and privately with Ivan Galamian, as well as chamber music with Felix Galimir and members of the Juilliard String Quartet (Robert Mann and Claus Adam). Subsequently, he performed in master classes under the tutelage of Nathan Milstein at The Juilliard School and Ruggiero Ricci in Victoria, Canada. As a Founding violinist of the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra in New York City, Sin-Tung Chiu performed in its concerts at Carnegie Hall and Lincoln Center, and participated in its tours to Europe, India, Israel, North and South America, and Puerto Rico, which included two U.S. State Department sponsorships. He was Artist-in-Residence at Bay View Summer Conservatory and Music Festival (Michigan); Assistant Professor of Violin at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga; Visiting Associate Professor of Violin at Texas Christian University in Fort Worth, Co-Concertmaster of the Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra and Concertmaster of its Chamber Orchestra, Music Consultant of the documentary film of the 1977 Van Cliburn Quadrennial International Piano Competition; and Associate Concertmaster of the Round Top Festival Orchestra (Texas). At that time, Sin-Tung Chiu frequently appeared in sonata recitals and faculty chamber music concerts, in addition to live broadcasts on regional public radio and television. Sin-Tung Chiu became an American citizen in New York in 1984 and established his home in San Francisco in 1988. In San Francisco, Sin-Tung Chiu teaches privately and is on the violin faculty of Community Music Center (CMC) since 1988, serving on the CMC Faculty Council (2007 to 2010) and (2012-2015); Chinese American International School (1997-2015); Music City Academy (2008-2017); in Hillsborough, California, on the violin faculty of The Nueva School as a Menuhin violin instructor since 1991, serving also as Director of the Nueva String Ensemble since 2005. From 2005 to 2008, Sin-Tung Chiu was a member of the Board of Directors of the Del Sol Performing Arts Organization that oversees the career of the San-Francisco-based