Andrew Eng, violist, has gained a versatile reputation playing such diverse genres as Baroque, Classical, tango, jazz, and contemporary music. Eng’s playing has been noted as “intense and powerfully emotional” (Classical New Jersey) and the New Jersey Star-Ledger described him as having an “instinct for the emotional pulse of a line.”
As a founding member of the two-time Grammy nominated A Far Cry Chamber Orchestra, Mr. Eng also served as the violinist for the Bernardo Monk Tango Quartet. He has been featured on the Celebrity Series of Boston, Marlboro’s Music for a Sunday Afternoon, Mohawk Trail & Electric Earth Concerts, and has been a Guest Artist on the National Chamber Players, Classical Movements, Lyrica Boston Chamber Music, and Longy School of Music’s Modern American Music Concert series. He is a frequent guest on the Millennium Stage at the Kennedy Center.
Mr. Eng has collaborated as a soloist with Elmar Oliveira and the Lyrica Chamber Orchestra, Eugene Drucker, Terry King, Victor Rosenbaum, and has improvised with musicians including Daniel Binelli, George Garzone, Diane Monroe, and Peter Cassino. Andrew has taught at summer music festivals including LyricaFest, Point Counterpoint, Youth and Muse, Lyra Music Festival, and Maine Chamber Music Seminar. While living in Boston he served as a faculty member at Wellesley College.
Mr. Eng has held positions in the Albany and New Bedford Symphony Orchestras. He regularly performs as an extra musician with the National Symphony Orchestra and the Washington National Opera/Kennedy Center Opera House Orchestra. Andrew received his A.R.C.T. Performer’s Certificate from the Royal Conservatory in Toronto, Canada, and continued his training in Cambridge, Massachusetts, earning his Undergraduate Diploma in Performance, and Master of Music degree in Modern American Music at the Longy School of Music. He worked under the guidance of Zvi Zeitlin, Joseph Silverstein, Laura Bossert, and Roger Tapping.