Stephen Fang has been Assistant Principal Cellist of the New Jersey Symphony Orchestra since 2007. Prior to joining the NJSO, he served as Assistant Principal of the Aspen Festival Orchestra and Akron Symphony Orchestra. He has also performed with the Iris Chamber Orchestra and Canton Symphony Orchestra.
As a chamber musician, he won the Grand Prize at the 30th Annual Fischoff National Chamber Music Competition and First Prize at the 56th and 59th Annual Coleman Chamber Ensemble Competitions. He was featured in the Fischoff Grand Prize Winner’s Tour, Kennedy Center Millennium Stage Recital Series, Cleveland Chamber Music Society Series and Cleveland Chamber Music Guild Series.
He has performed concertos with orchestras including the NJSO, Cleveland Institute of Music Orchestra, Colonial Symphony, Livingston Symphony Orchestra, Montclair Chamber Ensemble and New Jersey Philharmonic.
Fang has been the cello coach of the Greater Newark Youth Orchestra since 2007.
He earned his bachelor’s and graduate degrees at the Cleveland Institute of Music, where he was the winner of the 2003 Ellis A. Feiman Memorial Award for Achievement in Cello and 2003 Dr. Bennett Levine Memorial Award for Achievement in Chamber Music. He studied with preeminent professors and principal cellists of major orchestras, including Carter Brey, Richard Aaron, Desmond Hoebig, Stephen Geber and Eric Kim. |
