Violinist Cherry Choi Tung Yeung, Associate Principal Second Violin of the San Diego Symphony Orchestra, secured her first orchestral position at just 21. She has performed with the New York Philharmonic and served as concertmaster for The Juilliard School and Curtis Symphony Orchestras, leading the latter at Carnegie Hall during the 2020 Curtis on Tour. A laureate of the Michael Hill International Violin Competition and the Alice and Eleonore Schoenfeld International String Competition, Yeung also won first prize at the Hudson Valley
Philharmonic String Competition, leading to engagements with the Hudson Valley
Philharmonic and Orchestra Sinfonica Rossini di Pesaro. An artist at the prestigious Marlboro Music Festival and La Jolla Summerfest, she recently toured with the Four Seasons Chamber Music Festival and was invited back to Caramoor’s “Evnin Rising Stars” program. She has also appeared at the Norfolk Chamber Music Festival, Music Academy of the West, and Meadowmount School of Music, collaborating with luminaries like Jonathan Biss, Hsin-Yun Huang, Nobuko Imai, Anthony McGill, Marcy Rosen,Mitsuko Uchida, Peter Wiley etc. In 2018, she was named a New York Philharmonic Global Academy Zarin Mehta
Fellow.
Ms. Yeung holds an Artist Diploma from the Curtis Institute of Music, studied violin with Ida Kavafian and Arnold Steinhardt; viola with Steven Tenenbom. Ms. Yeung also holds a Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees from The Juilliard School, where she finished both degrees within 4 years. She previously attended the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts. Her former teachers include Ivan Chan, Elizabeth Lo, Siu Mei Li and Michael Ma.
Ms. Yeung plays on a 1768 Pietro Giovanni Mantegazza violin and a 1940 Eugene Nicolas Sartory bow.
