Bion Tsang

Winner of an Avery Fisher Career Grant and the Bronze Medal in the IX International Tchaikovsky Competition, cellist Bion Tsang has appeared with the New York, Moscow, and Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestras; the Atlanta, Pacific, Civic, American, and National Symphony Orchestras; the Hollywood Bowl Orchestra; the Stuttgart Chamber Orchestra; and the Taiwan National Orchestra. Tsang's chamber music career is marked by collaborations with violinists Pamela Frank, Jaime Laredo, Cho-Liang Lin and Kyoko Takezawa, violist Michael Tree, cellist Yo-Yo Ma, bassist Gary Karr, and pianist Leon Fleisher. He is a frequent guest artist of the Boston Chamber Music Society, Chamber Music International of Dallas, Da Camera of Houston, and Camerata Pacifica in Los Angeles, and performs at many festivals, including Marlboro, Portland, Tucson, the Bard Festival, Bravo! Colorado, and the Laurel Festival of the Arts, where he served as artistic director for ten years. Tsang received his BA from Harvard University and his MMA from Yale University, where he studied with Aldo Parisot. His other cello teachers included Ardyth Alton, Luis Garcia-Renart, William Pleeth, Channing Robbins and Leonard Rose. Tsang is on the faculty at the Butler School of Music at The University of Texas at Austin.