Lindsay Cheng

Lindsay Cheng is currently a second year undergraduate cellist at New York University, studying under Professor Marion Feldman. Her previous teachers include Hannah Holman, Ole Akahoshi, and Hans JØrgen Jensen. She plays a cello made by Ernst Heinrich Roth in Markneukirchen, Germany, generously loaned to her by the Carlsen Cello Foundation. Her recent awards include being selected as a first prize winner with the New York Concerti Sinfonietta as well as being selected a winner of the 2015 Young Musician’s Concert where she performed at Carnegie Hall. Lindsay is also a two­-time winner of the Young Musician’s Concert hosted by the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, where she performed at Alice Tully Hall. She has participated in chamber music master classes with many guest artists including Hiroko Yajima, Daniel Phillips, Robert Chen, Steven Tenenbom, Annie Fullard, and Nicholas Canellakis. An avid orchestral player, Lindsay has served as principal cellist at Eastern Music Festival. She was also assistant principal cellist in the Philharmonic orchestra at Mannes in the Pre­College division, and has been a member of the Philharmonic orchestra at the Manhattan School of Music in the Pre­College division. Currently, she is a member of the New York Youth Symphony. Lindsay also has an interest in the art of lutherie, and has worked at the shop of Matthias Lehner in New York City.