Praised for her “ferocious, lithe” (ClevelandClassical) playing, violinist Beatrice Hsieh (pronounced ‘Shay’) is an accomplished performer in solo, chamber, and orchestral mediums, and is also sought after for her experience in historically-informed performance and new music.
Beatrice is in her second season as a long-term guest musician with the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra. A recent Fellow of the New World Symphony, Beatrice was featured in various roles as soloist, concertmaster, and curator during her fellowship. Highlights include her “superb iteration” (South Florida Classical Review) of the Korngold Violin Concerto as winner of the Concerto Competition, a critically-acclaimed run as concertmaster for Strauss’ Ein Heldenleben, and co-creating a weeklong festival for historically-informed Baroque performance, culminating in two sold-out concerts.
An avid chamber musician, Beatrice is a prizewinner of the Fischoff, WDAV, and Oneppo chamber competitions, and was a young artist of the Perlman Music Program, Kneisel Hall Chamber Music, and Juilliard String Quartet Seminar. As founding first violinist of the Belka Quartet, she held young artist residencies with Madeline Island Chamber Music and the Cleveland Chamber Music Society.
Beatrice has also performed with the Minnesota Orchestra, St. Louis Symphony, Kansas City Symphony, and San Diego Symphony. In summer seasons, she has also performed with the Colorado Music Festival Orchestra, the Lucerne Festival Contemporary Orchestra, and as concertmaster with the Spoleto Festival USA Orchestra for the world-premiere run of Pulitzer Prize-winning opera, Omar, acclaimed by the New York Times as “one of the best performances of 2022.”
Beatrice holds a Master of Music and a Master of Musical Arts from the Yale School of Music, where she studied under Syoko Aki, and a Bachelor of Music with valedictory honors from the Cleveland Institute of Music, where she was a winner of the concerto competition and a recipient of the Anna Tringas Violin Prize, studying under Joel Smirnoff and Joan Kwuon.