Mei, Ni

She is a violinist born in China to a family where her father was a concertmaster and music director of the Wuhan Symphny Orchestra. She started to play the violin when she received lessons from her father when she was 6 years old and at 10 years old became a student at the Shanghai Music Conservatory, where she remained for the next 11 years before taking further studies in the United States at Pittsburg State University and Rice University.

While studying in the United States she won first prize at the Young Texas Artists Competition and was a winner at the Waddill Chamber Music Competition and the Pittsburg State Concerto-Aria Competition.

She went on to become a member of the Houston Symphony Orchestra, Associate Concertmaster of the Ohio Light Opera, the Concertmaster of the Southeast Kansas Orchestra and a first violinist with the Detroit Symphony Orchestra.

Following her position with the Detroit Symphony she became fourth chair Second Violin with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra in 2009. As a chamber musician she has performed with members of the CSO at the Art Institute Chamber Series: Modern Beauty with the Guadgnini Ensemble.

Recordings she has performed on include her performance at the world premiere of August Read Thomas’s “Plea for Peace”.

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