Timothy Shiu - Music

 

Education

• Graduate Performance Diploma, Peabody Institute of John Hopkins University, 1994
• M.M., Master of Music, Cleveland Institute of Music, 1991
• B.M., Bachelor of Arts, Yale University, 1989

Biography

Violinist Timothy Shiu has concertized extensively throughout the United States in venues including Lincoln Center's Alice Tully Hall, the Kennedy Center's Terrace Theater, the Aspen Music Festival's Harris Hall, the Interlochen Arts Institute's Corson Auditorium, Concerts International, the New School's Schneider Concert Series, and Chamber Music Northwest. International engagements have included performances in Italy, Japan, China, Korea, Canada, and Brazil.

An avid chamber musician, Mr. Shiu has had a string quartet career for over three decades playing as a member of the Ceruti and, previously, Maia String Quartets and has collaborated as well with members of the Guarneri, Muir, Blair, and Borromeo Quartets. In addition, he has also been a member for two decades of the IRIS Orchestra—now IRIS Collective. Shiu has recorded for the MSR Classics, Fleur de Son Classics, Orchid Classics, and New Albion labels.

Since 2013, Mr. Shiu has taken to exploring Historically Informed Performance (HIP) of Early Music on the Baroque violin and has given numerous solo and chamber performances on that instrument. He has also played with such period-instrument ensembles as The Continuo Collective in New York City and Music City Baroque in Nashville, TN and has recently played lead violin in Opera Memphis' production of Cavalli's La Calisto.

Currently Associate Professor of Violin at the University of Memphis' Rudi E. Scheidt School of Music, Mr. Shiu has previously served on the faculties of the University of Iowa and Peabody Conservatory. In addition to violin and chamber music instruction, he brings his HIP experience to his teaching at the Scheidt School in offerings of lessons in Baroque Violin and leadership of the school's Early Music Ensemble, the Collegium Musicum.

Mr. Shiu teaches summers at the Interlochen Arts Camp (MI) and was also formerly Coordinator of the Summer Chamber Music Fellowship Program at the Garth Newel Music Center (VA). He has previously taught also at the Five Seasons Music Festival (Cedar Rapids, IA), of which he was a founding member, the Austin (TX) Chamber Music Festival, Conservatory Music in the Mountains (Durango, CO), the South Carolina (Greenville) Governor's School for the Arts, and the Snowmass (CO) and University of Memphis Suzuki Institutes.

Mr. Shiu holds degrees from the Cleveland Institute of Music and Yale University and has held post-graduate fellowships at the Juilliard School and Peabody Conservatory. His lineage of teachers includes Louise Behrend, Victor Danchenko, Joseph Fuchs, Sidney Harth, Jörg-Michael Schwarz (Baroque violin), and Donald Weilerstein.