Sifei Cheng 鄭希暉, Violist

Born in Taiwan and raised in California, violist Sifei Cheng joined the Minnesota Orchestra in 1995. He has served as Principal Viola of the Charleston Symphony, New World Symphony, and the Pacific Music Festival Orchestra. He has led sections under Michael Tilson Thomas, Alexander Schneider, Eiji Oue and Christoph Eschenbach. As a chamber music performer, Sifei has played in the Ravinia Festival, Caramoor Music Festival, Taos Chamber Music Festival, Pacific Music Festival and the New York String Seminar. Some of his past coaches include Michael Tree, Samuel Rhodes, Miriam Fried, Paul Biss, Alan de Veritch, the Tokyo String Quartet, and the American String Quartet. He has collaborated in chamber music with artists such as Joshua Bell, Pamela Frank, Alicia de Larrocha and the Shanghai String Quartet. Sifei holds a degree from the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia and studied at the Juilliard School in New York. His past teachers include Karen Tuttle, Michael Tree and William Kennedy.

出生於台北的鄭希暉,1980年隨雙親及兩位哥哥移民來美.他曾先後獲得美國弦樂協會(Congress of Strings),音樂家聯盟(Musician’s Union), 班夫藝術(Banff Centre for the Arts)等機構獎學金.1991年擔任亞歷山大.施耐德(Alexander Schneider)指揮的紐約弦樂團的首席演奏者.

鄭希暉原先學小提琴,十三歲改學中提琴.1989年進入紐約茱麗亞音樂學院,1990年轉柯蒂斯音樂學院(Curtis Institude of Music).

 

Source from台灣公論報1124期01/1993

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