Meng-Chun Chi
Asst. Prof.
205 OBF
mchi@siu.edu
618-453-5833
Meng-Chun Chi, violist, originally from Taiwan, has been in the United States of America since 1988. Dr. Chi received her Bachelor of Music degree from Oberlin Conservatory, where she was a student of Jeffrey Irvine and Lynne Ramsey. She studied with Robert Vernon, Principal Violist of the Cleveland Orchestra, while completing her Masters of Music degree at the Cleveland Institute of Music. In January 2003, Dr. Chi received her Doctor of Musical Arts degree from Rutgers University, where she studied with Michael Tree (the violist of the Guarneri String Quartet) and Paul Neubauer.
Dr. Chi has participated in numerous music festivals such as the Banff Centre for the Arts, Juilliard String Quartet Seminar, New York String Seminar, the Young Artist Quartet Program at the Boston University Tanglewood Institute, and the Encore String School. She has been a member of the New Jersey-based Amabile String Quartet since 1998. The quartet has appeared in several concert series on the east coast, and served as the Quartet in Residence at Rutgers University from 2000-2002. In New Jersey, she had played with Riverside Symphonia, Princeton Pro Musica, and Princeton Symphony Orchestra. Dr. Chi was recently appointed as an Assistant Professor of viola and music theory at Southern Illinois University Carbondale. She also serves as a faculty member at Vermont Youth Symphony's Reveille! Music Festival.
