Shuangshuang Liu, Viola

Biography

In 2005 Shuangshuang Liu, viola, came to the United States to study at the Bard College Conservatory of Music, where she is a student of Ira Weller, Michael Tree, and Steven Tenenbom. Born in China, Ms. Liu attended the Music Middle School attached to the Shanghai Conservatory of Music. During her years in Shanghai she won 2nd place of the First National Viola Competition, held in Shenyang China and was a member of the 15th Asian Youth Orchestra which toured in China, Japan, Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, and the Philippines. A frequent participant in music festivals, she has participated in the New York String Orchestra Seminar directed by Jaime Laredo, the Kneisel Hall Chamber Music Festival and, last summer, the Pacific Music Festival in Japan, where she performed with the Sapporo Symphony Orchestra. Ms. Liu made her American concerto debut when, as winner of the Bard College Conservatory Concerto Competition, she performed with the American Symphony Orchestra, under the direction of conductor Leon Botstein. While at Bard she has performed with faculty members Ida Kavafian, Peter Wiley, Laurie Smukler, Robert Martin, Melvin Chen, Julie Landsman, and others at the Library of Congress, The Chamber Music Society of Reading, Pennsylvania, the Rhinebeck Chamber Music Festival, and the Bard Music Festival. Ms. Liu will be receiving degrees in both music and in Asian Studies, specializing in Japanese language and society.