Last updated October 2025.

I am a volunteer violinist with the Boston Philharmonic Orchestra. I additionally play in Boston-area community orchestras such as Mercury Orchestra and Apollo Ensemble.

Honors and awards

• 2013 Merit Award winner, National YoungArts Foundation, violin
• 2015 study-abroad semester at Royal College of Music, London
• 2017 Certificate in Musical Performance, violin, Princeton University
• 2018 MIT Symphony Orchestra concerto competition winner

Chamber

• 2011 Fischoff Chamber Music Competition first prize (Polaris Quartet, violist), appearance on NPR’s From the Top
• 2012 Cincinnati Young Artists
• 2014-2017 Opus 21, Princeton University
• 2017 MIT Chamber Music Society
• 2018 Maine Chamber Music Seminar
• 2019 Millennial Chamber Players
• 2019 Bowdoin International Music Festival

Orchestral

• 2013 National Youth Orchestra of the USA, violinist (international tour with Joshua Bell and Valery Gergiev)
• 2016-2017 Princeton University Orchestra, concertmaster
• 2018 MIT Summer Philharmonic Orchestra, violinist
• 2018, 2021, 2023-present Mercury Orchestra, violinist
• 2023-2024 Apollo Ensemble, violinist
• 2025 New Opera Company of Boston, violinist
• 2025-present Boston Philharmonic Orchestra, violinist

Masterclasses: David Kim, Daniel Phillips, Philippe Graffin, Tjeerd Top, Ani Kavafian

Mentors: Lynn Chang, Anna Lim, Detlef Hahn, Piotr Milewski, Kurt Sassmannshaus, Hong-Guang Jia, Michelle Fang (mom)

Outreach

• Teaching
• Classical Music Hour, Princeton University (2014-2016)
• The Open Practice Room (2020) on What Are We Doing? Radio, a pandemic-time broadcast station by MIT Architecture students

Instagram: @df.violin

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