Vivian Shen

Born in Taipei, Vivian Shen began studying violin at the age of five. She entered the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts with full scholarship to further her studies, under Prof. Michael Ma in 2013 and 2017, graduated with First Class Honours in both her Bechelor’s and Master’s degrees. She is currently faculty at the Junior Music Programme of the HKAPA, violinist in the Nova Ensemble, and also a freelancer in the Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra.

Vivian has participated in masterclasses with Maxim Vengerov, Cho-Liang Lin, Ray Chen, Christoph Poppen and Robert Chen. She has also received coaching from Paganini Competition winners Lu Siqing, Huang Bin and Ning Feng. Winner of The Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts’ Concerto Trial 2016, she performed the Tchaikovsky violin Concerto with HKAPA's Academy Symphony Orchestra. She has also joined many music camps and music festival during the summer.
Vivian participated in the Aspen Music Festival in 2016 and was invited by the Festival to return in 2017. She played in the Aspen Festival Orchestra with renowned conductors, including Robert Spano, Ludovic Morlot, Hugh Wolff, James Gaffigan, Miguel Harth-Bedoya, and Vasily Petrenko. In 2018 she participated in Montréal International String Quartet Academy.

Source: Samuel Chan