Wen Qian - Assistant Concertmaster of NY Metropolitan Orchestra, Violin Professor at Mannes College of Music

Ms. Wen Qian was hailed by China Daily as “one of China’s mostpromising young violinists” and in a 2004 Strad magazine reviewtitled “Rare Thrill” featuring Ms. Qian after her Carnegie Hallrecital, music critic Dennis Rooney commented “ it was performedwith enough insight and panache to thrill a listener while at thesame time raising the question of why such results are so rarelyachieved.“. Ms. Qian has been a first violinist with the Metropolitan Orchestrasince 1997, where she continues to serve as the acting AssistantConcertmaster. On top of her busy schedule at the Met, Ms. Qianalso enjoys an active career as a soloist, chamber musician andeducator throughout China, America and Europe. Ms. Qian began to shine as concertmaster under Valery Gergiev in1994 at the Schleswig-Holstein Festival Orchestra, her solos in“Scheherazade” had brought her to the front page of Germannewspaper “Kieler Nachrichten”. The featured review read: ” whosetenderness was as much musically correct as it was se