Daniel Chong

Violinist Daniel Chong is active as both a chamber musician and a solo performer. A recipient of the 2003-04 Presser Scholar Award for outstanding achievement at the New England Conservatory of Music, he has also won top prizes at numerous competitions as a founding member of the Parker String Quartet, including the Coleman Chamber Music Competition and the Kingsville International Music Competition. He started his solo career at age eight with the Orchestra Da Camera in Los Angeles, and at ten years old he appeared as soloist with the Redlands Bowl Symphony Orchestra. He has since been guest soloist with the Cleveland Institute of Music Symphony Orchestra, Marina Del Rey-Westchester Symphony, Brentwood Symphony and the Young Musicians Foundation (YMF) Debut Orchestra in Los Angeles.

As a recitalist, Mr. Chong has concertized in Weill Recital Hall, Curtis Hall, Kulas Hall at the Cleveland Institute of Music, the Ebell Theater and Zipper Hall in Los Angeles, and also performed for the Los Angels Philharmonic Women’s Council, Santa Clarita Arts Council, the Cleveland Chamber Music Guild, and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art which was broadcast on 105.1 FM. Abroad, Mr. Chong has also been invited for recitals in Mannheim, Heidelberg, and Heilbronn, Germany, and he recently appeared in concert with Maestro Shlomo Mintz in Geneva, Switzerland.

A native of Southern California, Daniel Chong began the violin at age four, and studied with Robert Lipsett at the Colburn School of Performing Arts. He was accepted to the Curtis Institute of Music at the age of thirteen where he studied with Victor Danchenko. Among the many scholarships that Mr. Chong has been awarded is the Jack Vernon Endowed Scholarship to the New England Conservatory, where he received his Bachelor of Music degree and is currently pursuing a Graduate Diploma, as a student of Donald Weilerstein.
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