Praised for her “first rate and thoroughly engaging” playing, violinist Dr. Li-Mei Liang’s performance was described as a “powerhouse” (Boston Musical Intelligencer). An active soloist and chamber musician, Li-Mei has performed across the U.S. and in Belgium, China, Japan, the Netherlands, South Korea, and Taiwan, appearing in renowned concert venues such as the Boston Symphony Hall, Jordan Hall in Boston, Kimmel Center in Philadelphia, Lotte Concert Hall in Korea, Shanghai Oriental Art Center, Taiwan National Concert Hall, and Tokyo Opera City. Li-Mei regularly plays with the East Coast Chamber Orchestra (ECCO), and has performed with the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra (SPCO). She is also a core member of New York Classical Players (NYCP). As a soloist, Li-Mei recently recorded a new edition of the complete ballet music of Paquita by Édouard Deldevez and Joseph Mazilier, as well as Swan Lake by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovksy, with the Evergreen Symphony Orchestra in Taiwan, also serving as a guest concertmaster.
A passionate and committed educator in both music theory and violin practice, Li-Mei is a full-time faculty member at the New England Conservatory, serving both as a music theory faculty and the Coordinator for the Music Literacy and Musicianship curriculum in the college division, as well as a violin instructor at the Preparatory School. She also teaches violin as an affiliated artist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. In previous years, Li-Mei has served as a Lecturer in Violin and Chamber Music at the University of California, Irvine, a chamber music teacher for the Quad Chamber Music Program at Harvard University, as well as a private violin instructor at Arlington Public Schools.
Li-Mei has also been invited as a guest violin teacher at reputable institutions and summer festivals. She has given violin and chamber music masterclasses and led orchestra sectionals at the Los Angeles County High School for the Arts and University of Texas at Austin, as well as serving as a summer teaching faculty at Greenwood Music Camp, Heifetz International Music Institute, and the New England Conservatory’s Summer Orchestra Institute.
Grew up in Taiwan, Li-Mei graduated from the Affiliated High School of National Taiwan Normal University prior to completing her undergraduate and graduate studies at the New England Conservatory. She received her Doctorate of Musical Arts in violin performance, with a minor in music theory, at the same institution, writing an analytical thesis on Béla Bartók’s Sonata for Solo Violin. Her mentors include Donald Weilerstein, Nicholas Kitchen, Efstratios Minakakis and Cheng-Tu Su.