Yi Hsuan Chiu, Double Bass

Venue
Morse Hall

Taiwanese bassist Yi Hsuan Chiu received her Bachelor’s Degree from The Juilliard School
under the guidance of professor Albert Laszlo and is now a proud recipient of a Kovner
Fellowship at the Juilliard School for her Master’s Degree. Ms. Chiu has been invited by the
music director and solo violinist Nai-Yuan Hu to play with Taiwan Connection Chamber
Orchestra. In 2015, Ms. Chiu attended Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival Orchestra
Academy in Germany in which she was principal under the baton of Maestro Christoph
Eschenbach. In 2013, she was the first-prize winner of American String Teachers Association
Double Bass Solo Competition in New York City and won third prize for the International
Society of Bassists Solo Competition. Ms. Chiu attended Aspen Music Festival as a
fellowship student of Professor Albert Laszlo, and was a member of Aspen Chamber
Symphony in 2016 and 2014. In 2018, Ms. Chiu has won the assistant principal bass position
with the Beijing National Center for the Performing Arts and section bass position with the
Hyogo Performing Art Center in Japan.