Timothy Shiu
Violin
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.