VC ARTIST

Born in New York City, sixteen-year-old Fiona started the violin at three years old with the Suzuki method and has attended the Juilliard Pre-College Division since the age of ten, studying with Professors Li Lin and Itzhak Perlman. She has performed as a soloist and chamber musician in the United States, Italy, Germany, Belgium, the Netherlands, London, and more. Most recently, Fiona made her debut with the New York Philharmonic under the baton of Maestro Thomas Wilkins in David Geffen Hall for the Centennial Season of the Young People’s Concerts. She has had the honor of performing in the presence of King Charles at Lancaster House with the Oxford Philharmonic Orchestra under the baton of Maestro Marios Papadopoulos, with whom she has performed as soloist at the Windsor Castle and the Frick Collection of New York, and in Carnegie Hall’s Stern Auditorium and the Buckingham Palace along with Maxim Vengerov. She has also performed as a soloist with the Juilliard Orchestra in Alice Tully Hall in Lincoln Center, with the Flanders Symphony Orchestra at the Bozar Concert Hall in Brussels, and the ProMusica Chamber Orchestra. Fiona was awarded the prestigious Career Grant Award from Salon de Virtuosi in 2021 and performed in several of their concert series and is also a recipient of the 2022 Arkady Fomin Scholarship Fund from the North Shore Chamber Music Festival. She has performed as part of the Bouchaine Young Artist Series of Festival Napa Valley in 2021 and 2023, and has taken part in chamber music festivals such as Chamber Music Northwest, Keshet Eilon, and the Heifetz Institute. She attended the Heifetz Institute’s HEIR Residency in 2023 and frequently performs as a guest artist with the Jupiter Symphony Chamber Players and the non-profit organization Project Music Heals Us. She has also performed often on the NPR show From The Top and in the musical storefront series with the Kaufman Music Center. She attends the Spence School in New York.