About Ms. Ran
Born in Shanghai, China, Ran Tao came to the United States at the age of seventeen to pursue her musical studies at the Manhattan School of Music in New York City, where she trained under distinguished musicians including Stanley Bednar, Sheryl Staples, Michelle Kim and Anna Rabinova, among others.
She is the recipient of the Stamas Fund Scholarship Award from the New York Philharmonic and was awarded full scholarships to several prestigious international music festivals and academies, including the Verbier Festival Academy in Switzerland, the Pacific Music Festival in Japan, the American Institute of Musical Studies {AIMS) in Graz, Austria, the Bowdoin International Music Festival in Maine, the National Orchestral Institute & Festival in Maryland, and the Manchester Music Festival in Vermont. Following the completion of her Master of Music degree, she won a highly competitive audition and was selected as a fellow of the New World Symphony, America’s Orchestral Academy and its distinguished three-year fellowship program for young musicians preparing for professional orchestral careers. She also studied Chamber music with Isidore Cohen, Sylvia Rosenberg and the American String Quartet.
Throughout her career, she has performed with world-renowned artists and ensembles, including Hillary Hahn and Evgeny Kissin, under conductors such as James Levine, Christopher Eschenbach and Michael Tilson Thomas. Her performance experience spans major international venues, including Lincoln Center, Carnegie Hall, Alice Tully Hall, Opera House Opemhaus in Austria, St. Marks Basilica in Venice.
Ran holds both Bachelor and Masters of Music degrees in Violin Performance from the Manhattan School of Music, and is also a trained Suzuki Method violin teacher through Ithaca College School of Music in New York.
In addition to her performance career, Ran is the founder of Little Mozart School of Violin, a private violin studio that has served students in Manhattan and Jersey City’s Paulus Hook and Exchange Place waterfront neighborhoods for many years.
