Luosha Fang

Born into a family of musicians, violinist and violist Luosha Fang brings her technical brilliance and expressive range to a belief in shared humanity to her music. Her grandfather studied with Alfred Wittenberg, a pupil of Joseph Joachim, who fled Nazi Germany for Shanghai in 1939. Her Chinese roots, American training, and career in Europe shaped a unique musical voice enriched by a storyteller’s imagination. At eight, she made her concerto debut in China before moving to the U.S. where she earned dual degrees in violin and Russian Studies at Bard College, studying then at Curtis Institute of Music and Madrid’s Reina Sofía School of Music with Nobuko Imai. A winner of the Vienna Classic Strings and Tokyo International Viola competitions, she has appeared as soloist with the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra, Louisville Orchestra, American Symphony Orchestra, New Japan Philharmonic, Nagoya Philharmonic Orchestra, Hiroshima Symphony Orchestra, TOHO-Gakuen Orchestra, Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra and Franz Liszt Chamber Orchestra. Her performances have taken her to Carnegie Hall, where she premiered Kurtág’s …concertante… in the U.S., Wigmore Hall and the Elbphilharmonie. She plays an Gaetano Pollastri violin and the 1690 “Josefowitz” Andrea Guarneri viola.