Luosha Fang

Violinist and violist Luosha Fang brings an adventurous spirit to repertoire ranging from canonical works to world premieres. As a violin soloist, she has performed with orchestras including the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra, the Louisville Orchestra, the West Virginia Symphony, the Bay-Atlantic Symphony, the Atlantic Symphony, and the American Symphony Orchestra, with whom she gave the U.S. premiere of Grażyna Bacewicz’s Violin Concerto No. 5. With the Albany Symphony Orchestra, she recorded George Tsontakis’s double violin concerto Unforgettable for release on Naxos Records. She recently performed the U.S. premiere of György Kurtág’s Concertantes with The Orchestra Now at Carnegie Hall. As a violist, she has appeared as a soloist with the New Japan Philharmonic, the Nagoya Philharmonic Orchestra, the Hiroshima Symphony Orchestra, the Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra, and the Franz Liszt Chamber Orchestra.

A prizewinner in international competitions on both instruments, Fang won the 2019 Classic Strings International Competition in Vienna and the 2018 Tokyo International Viola Competition. She was also a winner of Astral Artists’ 2013 National Auditions and the S&R Foundation’s 2015 Washington Award.

Chamber music has been central to Fang’s career since she co-founded the Chimeng Quartet, which won the Silver Medal at the 2010 Fischoff National Chamber Music Competition. She has appeared at festivals including Marlboro, Kronberg, Ravinia, Aspen, Bard Music Festival, Caramoor, and Music from Angel Fire, collaborating with artists such as Gidon Kremer, Christian Tetzlaff, Steven Isserlis, Mitsuko Uchida, and Nobuko Imai. She has performed at renowned venues including Carnegie Hall, the Kennedy Center, Wigmore Hall, the Konzerthaus Berlin, the Elbphilharmonie, the Vienna Musikverein, and the Library of Congress. From 2021 to 2022, she was a member of the Pavel Haas Quartet in Prague.

Ms. Fang comes from a family of musicians. Her grandfather took violin lessons from Alfred Wittenberg, a pupil of Joseph Joachim, who came with other Jewish refugees from Nazi Germany to Shanghai in 1939. At sixteen, Fang moved to the USA on a scholarship to the Bard College Conservatory of Music, where she studied with Ida Kavafian and Arnold Steinhardt. After graduating from Bard with degrees in violin and Russian Studies, she attended the Curtis Institute of Music as a violin student of Ida Kavafian and Shmuel Ashkenasi. In 2016 she entered the Escuela Superior de Música Reina Sofía in Madrid as a viola student of Nobuko Imai. In Fall 2019 she was invited to teach at the Bard College Conservatory of Music as instructor of violin/viola.

Luosha Fang performs on a Gaetano Pollastri violin with an 1840 Jacob Eury bow and on the “Josefowitz” 1690 Andrea Guarneri viola with an 1840 Jean Pierre Marie Persoit bow.