Lun Jiang
ADJUNCTSAdjunct
Music
Email: ljiang@westminsteru.edu
About
Violinist Lun Jiang is a native of Beijing and grew up in Westchester, New York. He
has been a guest artist in concerts with Ruth Laredo, Isidore Cohen, Sergiu Luca,
Michael Rudiakov, Glenn Dicterow, Ian Swenson and members of the Cleveland, American,
Brentano, Pacifica, Miami and Ying String Quartets, to name but a few.
Lun was a prize winner of numerous competitions and has performed on stages in New
York, Chicago, Houston, Los Angeles, Las Vegas, Salt Lake City, San Francesco, Detroit,
Dallas/Fort Worth, Washington D.C., Beijing, Seoul, Hong Kong, Macau, as well as in
Germany and Austria, among others. He has been invited to the Manchester, Ravinia,
Great Lake, Round Top, Grand Teton and Martha's Vineyard Music Festivals.
He has recorded for Eroica Classical Records and Newport Classic including the complete
string quartets by Camille Saint-Saens and a solo album with twin brother Quan.
He was a founding member of the Equinox String Quartet which was a resident quartet
at the Midori Foundation as well as Gotham Quartet, a quartet in residence at Rice
University from 1999-2001. Gotham Quartet was a top prize winner at 2000 Fischoff
National Chamber Music Competition.
He is a graduate of Rice University and Manhattan School of Music where he studied
with Stanley Bednar, Isidore Cohen, Sergiu Luca and Raphael Fliegel. He has also worked
with Isaac Stern, Joseph Silverstein, William Preucil and Alexander Kerr. He is a
member of the Utah Symphony and an adjunct associate professor at University of Utah
and Westminster University.
Lun plays on a Tommaso Balestrieri violin, Mantua, ca.1760 and a Dominique Peccatte
bow, Paris, ca.1830.
He is an endorser of Thomastik-Infeld Strings, Vienna.
Areas of Expertise
Violin
