Moshi Tang

Violin

Moshi Tang, 17, fell in love with music before he could speak. He started his first violin lessons at age three-and-a-half. He joined COYO when he was 12 and has been serving as co-concertmaster since age 14. Currently, he studies violin with Joan Kwuon (Colburn School, previously Cleveland Institute of Music) and Carolyn Warner (The Cleveland Orchestra, CIM). He also studies music theory and composition with Alissa Shuster (CIM), from whom he took piano lessons. Previously, he studied with Elizabeth Faidley (Manhattan School of Music) and Liesl Langmack (CIM).

Moshi is an avid chamber music player and has played violin, viola, and piano in chamber ensembles for more than eight years. He and Carolyn Warner give several recitals as a sonata duo each year at Judson Manor and other local venues. Moshi was a semifinalist in the International Johansen Competition in 2022 and a winner of the 2022 National YoungArts Competition. He was also the 2021–2022 state winner of the Music Teachers National Association Competition in the categories of both Senior String Performance and Composition. Moshi has won local competitions, including the Concerto Competitions of the Cleveland Philharmonic Orchestra, the Suburban Symphony Orchestra, the Lakeland Civic Orchestra, and the CIM preparatory program, performing concertos with them as a result.

This past summer, Moshi joined the National Youth Orchestra of the United States, organized by Carnegie Hall, and served as its assistant concertmaster on a tour in Europe with conductor Daniel Harding and soloist Alisa Weilerstein.

Moshi is a senior at Hawken School. He is a recipient of the James A. Hawken scholarship and 2023 National Merit Scholarship Semifinalist. He plays on the school’s varsity soccer team and enjoys studying languages, philosophy, and science. He plans to continue his musical studies while pursuing a broad academic education when he goes to university next year.

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