Teng Li (born in Nanjing,

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) is a

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violist. She is currently the principal violist of the

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. From 2004 to 2018, she was the principal violist of the Toronto Symphony Orchestra. She is also the Artistic Director of Morningside Music Bridge and is a member of the Rosamunde String Quartet, led by

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Education

Li began the violin at five years old. In 1992, she entered the Central Conservatory of Music in Beijing and at the age of sixteen, was accepted to study at the

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in Philadelphia, where her teachers were

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and Joseph de Pasquale.

Career

Along with her

and Toronto Symphony Orchestra solo appearances, Li has performed with the

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, Haddonfield Symphony Orchestra, Santa Rosa Symphony, Shanghai Opera Orchestra, National Chamber Orchestra, the Canadian Sinfonietta and Esprit Orchestra. Her performances have been broadcast on

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, WQXR-FM (New York), WHYY-FM (Pennsylvania), WFMT (Chicago), and the Bayerischer Rundfunk (Munich). Li is also an active recitalist and chamber musician, regularly appearing at the Marlboro Music Festival, Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival, Mostly Mozart Festival,

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, Moritzburg Festival (Germany) and the Rising Stars Festival in Caramoor. She has performed with the

Guarneri Quartet The Guarneri Quartet was an American string quartet founded in 1964 at the Marlboro Music School and Festival. It was admired for its rich, warm, complex tone and its bold, dramatic interpretations of the quartet literature, with a particular aff ...

in New York, at

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, and with the Chamber Music Society at

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. She was also featured with the Guarneri Quartet in their last season in 2009, and was also a member of the prestigious Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center Two Program.

Awards and Prizes

Li is a top prize winner at the

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Primrose International Viola Competition The Primrose International Viola Competition (PIVC), also referred to as the Primrose Memorial Scholarship Competition (PMSC), is an international music competition for viola players sponsored by the American Viola Society and named for the 20th-cen ...

, the Irving M. Klein International String Competition and the Johanson International Competition for Young String Players. She was also a winner of the 2003 Astral National Auditions.

Recordings

*''1939'' – Teng Li, Benjamin Bowman, Meng-chieh Liu. Producers: David Jaeger, Teng Li, Ron Searles. Recorded at the Glenn Gould Studio, Toronto. Label: Azica Records. June 2015iTune

Sources

External links

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