Called by The Boston Globe, “an intelligent, agile and breathtaking violinist”, Danwen Jiang has concertized as concerto soloist, recitalist, and chamber musician in Australia, Canada, China, France, Germany, Iceland, Italy, Poland, and across the United States. 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 Beijing Concert Hall in China. Her recordings are available on China Record Corporation, Eroica label, and Soundset Recordings. The American Record Guide called her “an exceptional violinist”, while the Fanfare Magazine described her performance as “absolutely exquisite”.

As a chamber musician, Jiang has collaborated in concerts with members of the renowned Guarneri, Juilliard, Tokyo, Emerson, and Shanghai String Quartets, The Boston Players, American Chamber Players, and other distinguished musicians such as André-Michel Schub, Lilian Kallir, Igor Kipnis, Ani Kavafian, Eric Rosenblith, Stanley Drucker, and Regina Carter. She has appeared at Manchester Music Festival, Sanibel Chamber Music Festival, Yale Chamber Music Series, Rutgers SummerFest, Taconic Music, Montecito International Music Festival in the United States, Music&More SummerFest in Bosnia-Herzegovina, Festival du Quercy Blanc and Festival Dan le Gard in France, Harpa International Music Festival in Iceland, InterHarmony International Music Festival in Italy and Germany, Victoria International Music Festival in Canada, among others. As an orchestral performer, she was Concertmaster for the Riverside Symphonia in New Jersey from 1995-2001.

A highly regarded string pedagogue, Danwen Jiang is Professor of Violin in the School of Music, Dance and Theatre at Arizona State University in the United States, where she was a recipient of the Professor of the Year Special Recognition Award, President’s Tenure/ Promotion Faculty Exemplar Award, and Distinguished Teacher Award. She was featured as soloist and masterclass clinician by the American String Teachers Association in national conferences. She served as a visiting faculty at Oberlin Conservatory of Music and at the University of Illinois at Urbana – Champaign. As guest professor, 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, and Academy of Music in Kraków, Poland.

Danwen Jiang studied violin with Arnold Steinhardt, Oscar Shumsky, Taras Gabora, and Weijian Zhao. Other influential musicians include Jaime Laredo, Michael Tree, Zara Nelsova, Felix Galimir, Josef Gingold, Joseph Silverstein, György Pauk, and Seymour Lipkin.

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