Luosha Fang
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Luosha Fang 方萝莎 | |
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| Background information | |
| Born | Shanghai, China |
| Genres | classical |
| Occupation(s) | Musician |
| Instrument(s) | Violin and Viola |
| Website | www |
Luosha Fang (Chinese: 方萝莎) is an American-Chinese violinist and violist based in NYC and a violin instructor at Bard College.[1]
Fang studied at the Curtis Institute of Music with Ida Kavafian and Shmuel Ashkenasi and at the Escuela Superior de Música Reina Sofía in Madrid as a viola student of Nobuko Imai. She won first prize in the 2019 Classic Strings International Competition in Vienna [2] and the 2018 Tokyo International Viola Competition,[3] and has collaborated with numerous composers, such as American composer Michael Djupstrom as well as with the Almanac Dance Circus Theatre and the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company. She was formerly the violist in the Pavel Haas Quartet.
She plays the 'Josefowitz' 1690 Andrea Guarneri viola.[4]
Discography[edit]
With Albany Symphony Orchestra
- Unforgettable: the music of Tsontakis (Naxos, 8.559826, 2017)
With Pavel Haas Quartet
- Brahms Piano Quintet In F Minor, Op. 34 - String Quintet In G Major, Op. 111 (Supraphon, SU 4306-2, 2022)
References[edit]
- ^ "Bard Conservatory Faculty". Retrieved February 11, 2024.
- ^ "2019 Vienna Classic Strings Viola Results". Retrieved February 11, 2024.
- ^ "2018 Tokyo International Viola Competition Results". Retrieved February 11, 2024.
- ^ "Luosha Fang Biography". Retrieved February 11, 2024.
- American classical violinists
- Living people
- Musicians from Shanghai
- Armenian classical violinists
- American women classical violinists
- 20th-century classical violinists
- 20th-century American women musicians
- 20th-century Chinese artists
- 21st-century classical violinists
- 21st-century American women musicians
- 21st-century American artists
- Chinese emigrants to the United States
- Curtis Institute of Music alumni