
Shanrong Tuo
Violin
​D.M.A. Stony Brook University
M.M. in Carnegie Mellon University
​B.M. in Yong Siew Toh Conservatory in Singapore
Biography
Violinist Shanrong Tuo has performed internationally as a soloist, chamber musician, and orchestral player across the United States, Europe, Israel, and Asia. She holds a Doctor of Musical Arts in Violin Performance from Stony Brook University, where she studied with Hagai Shaham, Jennifer Frautschi, and Philip Setzer of the Emerson Quartet. She also received advanced and master’s degrees from Carnegie Mellon University under Cyrus Forough, and a bachelor’s degree from the Yong Siew Toh Conservatory in Singapore under Alexander Souptel.
She has appeared at venues including Carnegie Hall, Staller Center for the Arts, and major concert halls in China and Israel, and has performed with orchestras such as the Xi’an City Symphony and Lanzhou Symphony. She has also collaborated with world-class ensembles including the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, New York Philharmonic, Seattle Symphony, and Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra.
An active chamber musician, she is the founder and artistic director of the Astoria String Players Concert Series and Living Stone Performing Arts in New York. She has also served as a teaching artist at Stony Brook University, the Noel Pointer Foundation, and music institutions in China, Israel, and Singapore.
