Violinist
Michael Shih, in his seventh season as concertmaster of the Fort
Worth Symphony Orchestra, has performed throughout the United States
and his native Taiwan, as well as on tours of Canada, France,
Germany, Costa Rica, Honduras, Japan, and Korea. A U.S. Presidential
Scholar in the Arts, he was a winner in the Naumburg International
Violin Competition and Artists International's Auditions, the latter
award resulting in his New York recital debut at Carnegie's Weill
Recital Hall in 1992. He has appeared with the Los Angeles
Philharmonic at Hollywood Bowl, Little Orchestra Society at Avery
Fisher Hall, Williamsburg Symphonia, New York Youth Symphony, San
Pedro Sula Symphony in Honduras, Taipei Symphony at Taiwan's
National Concert Hall, and with the symphony orchestras of Dallas,
Hartford, and New Amsterdam. He has also made a solo appearance at
the prestigious Chiehshou Hall Concert at the Office of the
President of Taiwan.
An avid performer of chamber music, he has collaborated with such
artists as Leon Fleisher, Sharon Isbin, Jaime Laredo, Cho-Liang Lin,
Yo-Yo Ma, Michael Tree, and Charles Wadsworth. From 1992 to 2002, he
was first
Michael Shih
presents the
Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra
STRING QUARTET
Sunday, November 4,
2007 - 7:30 PM
Historic Chautauqua Auditorium
Getszendaner Park - Waxahachie, TX
violinist of the Whitman
Quartet, formerly graduate quartet-in-residence at the Juilliard
School and winner of the Naumburg Chamber Music and Catherine Filene
Shouse Debut Artists awards. Music festival appearances include
Aspen, Bard, Chamber Music Northwest, Chautauqua, La Jolla, Lincoln
Center, Ravinia, Spoleto USA, and Mostly Mozart. He has also
appeared at the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, Chamber
Music International in Dallas, and the Van Cliburn Foundation's "Cliburn
at the Modern" series with composers John Corigliano and Lowell
Liebermann. He is the associate artistic director of the Chamber
Music Society of Fort Worth.
Radio and television credits include NPR's Performance Today, NBC's
Today Show, and Japan's NHK Television. He holds Bachelor and Master
of Music degrees from the Juilliard School, where he studied with
Dorothy DeLay and Hyo Kang. Other teachers include Chiu-Sen Chen,
Masao Kawasaki, Shue-Tee Lee, and Margaret Pardee. He was on the
violin faculty at the Lucy Moses School for Music and Dance in New
York City from 1995 to 2001. He was an adjunct instructor in violin
at Texas Christian University in the 2004-05 academic year.
Currently, he is an adjunct associate professor at Southern
Methodist University.
Mr. Shih plays a 1710 Antonio Stradivari violin, generously on loan
to the Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra Association by Mr. and Mrs.
William S. Davis of Fort Worth, Texas.
Performance of Sunday November 4, 2007
Michael Shih and The Fort Worth Symphony String Quartet
Violinist
Michael Shih, in his seventh season as concertmaster of the Fort
Worth Symphony Orchestra, has performed throughout the United States
and his native Taiwan, as well as on tours of Canada, France,
Germany, Costa Rica, Honduras, Japan, and Korea. A U.S. Presidential
Scholar in the Arts, he was a winner in the Naumburg International
Violin Competition and Artists International's Auditions, the latter
award resulting in his New York recital debut at Carnegie's Weill
Recital Hall in 1992. He has appeared with the Los Angeles
Philharmonic at Hollywood Bowl, Little Orchestra Society at Avery
Fisher Hall, Williamsburg Symphonia, New York Youth Symphony, San
Pedro Sula Symphony in Honduras, Taipei Symphony at Taiwan's
National Concert Hall, and with the symphony orchestras of Dallas,
Hartford, and New Amsterdam. He has also made a solo appearance at
the prestigious Chiehshou Hall Concert at the Office of the
President of Taiwan.
