Biography

Taiwanese violist HengChing Fang. She started to learn piano from age 5, and viola from age 10. She is the prize winner of the Leeds Chamber Orchestra Soloist Competition, finalist and the only string player in the Ludlow Philharmonic Competition, the First Prize in the Taipei West District Viola Competition and third-prize winner of the National Viola Competitionthe. As a viola soloist, she played the William Walton’s Viola Concerto with the Leeds Chamber Orchestra received positive review.

She has been awarded a Postgraduate Diploma at the Birmingham Conservatoire (studied viola with Rivka Golani) with International Scholarship and a Master of Music Degree at the Guildhall School of Music & Drama with postgraduate bursary (studied with David Takeno and Jack Glickman). She is currently undertaking a Doctor of Philosophy Degree at the University of Leeds under the supervision of Prof. Clive Brown. Her PhD project is sponsored by British Woman Foundation Fund.

HengChing has been invited to play with the Macau Symphony Orchestra, Chiemi Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra, Leeds Baroque Orchestra, Pacific Music Festival, Schleswig Holstein Music Festival, London Charity Orchestra, Asian Young Orchestra and toured in United Kingdom, China, Taiwan, Germany, France, Hong Kong and Japan with conductors Christoph Eschenbach, Valery Gergiev, Benard Haitink, Semyon Bychkov, Jaap van Zweden, Edo de wart, Krzyszt of Penderecki, Ween Pin Chen and Bright Sheng. As a chamber music player, HengChing enjoys working with musicians and experience different forms of chamber group. She also plays regularly with the LUCHIP String Quartet giving concert in Leeds, and Sheffield.