Danwen Jiang

Called by The Boston Globe, “an intelligent, agile and breathtaking violinist,” Danwen Jiang has performed as concerto soloist, recitalist and chamber musician worldwide. She has appeared in concert halls such as Carnegie Hall in New York City, Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C., La Salle Gaveau in Paris, Cultural Centre Concert Hall in Hong Kong, and the Beijing Concert Hall. Her performances have been broadcast through classical radio networks including NPR, WQXR(NY), KFOU(MO), WILL(WA), KING (WA), KBAQ (AZ), and CNR (China National Radio). She has recorded for the China Record Corporation, Eroica label, and SoundSet Recordings. The American Record Guide called her “an exceptional violinist”, while the Fanfare Magazine described her performances as “absolutely exquisite”. As chamber musician, Jiang has collaborated with musicians such as André-Michel Schub, Lilian Kallir, Igor Kipnis, Eric Rosenblith, Stanley Drucker, Regina Carter, members of Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, and the Guarneri, Juilliard, Tokyo, Emerson and Shanghai String Quartets. She has appeared as guest artist with ensembles such as Soloists of the Pacific Rim, The Boston Players, and the American Chamber Players. In addition, she has been an artist at the Manchester Music Festival, Sanibel Chamber Music Festival, Yale Chamber Music Series, Rutgers SummerFest, Taconic Music, and Montecito International Music Festival in the United States, Festival du Quercy Blanc and Festival Dan le Gard in France, Gioventù Musicale and InterHarmony International Music Festival in Italy, Sulzbach-Rosenberg International Music Festival in Germany, Victoria International Music Festival in Canada.

An accomplished and dedicated string pedagogue, Jiang is a professor of violin and recipient of the Professor of the Year Special Recognition Award (2012), President’s Tenure/Promotion Faculty Exemplar Award (2008), and Distinguished Teacher Award (2005) at Arizona State University. In 2018, She received the Honor Teacher Award in the Hong Kong International Violin Competition. She was a featured concerto soloist and college level masterclass clinician invited by the American String Teachers Association for the National Conferences in 2005 and 2008. Prior to joining the ASU faculty in 2003, Jiang taught on the faculty at Oberlin College Conservatory of Music and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Jiang has given guest masterclasses at major universities and conservatories across the United States. Internationally, she has taught at the Central Conservatory of Music in Beijing, Iceland Academy of the Arts in Reykjavík, State University of Music and Performing Arts Stuttgart in Germany, Sydney Conservatorium of Music at The University of Sydney in Australia, Vancouver Academy of Music in Canada, among others. Her former students have embarked on high-powered positions including concertmaster and principal positions in major symphony orchestras in the United States and abroad, tenured/ tenure-track violin faculty positions at reputable universities and conservatories; many have won important state, regional, national and international competitions.

Jiang studied violin with Oscar Shumsky, Arnold Steinhardt, Taras Gabora, and Weijian Zhao. Additionally, she studied chamber music with Jaime Laredo, Michael Tree, Felix Galimir, Seymour Lipkin, and Zara Nelsova, and masterclasses with Josef Gingold, Joseph Silverstein, György Pauk, and Sidney Harth. Jiang plays on a 1727 Antonio Stradivarius violin (the “Ex-Ries”).