Ting-Ru Lai
Taïwan
Viola
About
Born in Taipei Taiwan, violist Ting-Ru Lai appeared as a soloist at the Malaysian Royal Gala Concert at the age of 16. In 2019 she joined the London Philharmonic Orchestra as Sub-Principal viola. In autumn 2022 she left the job to pursue more varieties of music making. Since then she had joined Elba Isola musicale d’Europa where she played with Adam Walker, Boris Garlitsky, and principal woodwind players from the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, and was also invited to Winchester Chamber Music Festival in England. In December 2022 She performed with Janine Jansen, Boris Brovtsyn and Daniel Blendulf as part of Janine’s artist residency at the Kölner Philharmonie, and was part of Timothy Ridout and friends’ BBC lunchtime concert series in Belfast. She also regularly plays with Nicholas Daniel OBE and the Britten Oboe Quartet.
Ting-Ru has been invited as a guest principal at the Scottish Chamber Orchestra, Manchester Camerata, Esperanza Ensemble, Haydn Philharmonie, London Philharmonic Orchestra, Ulster Orchestra, and often plays with Aurora Orchestra and Amsterdam Sinfonietta.
Before moving to the U.K. to study with David Takeno in 2015, Ting-Ru spent 5 years leaning with Dimitri Murrath and Hsin-Yun Huang in the States. She has now settled in London and recently became a British citizen since March 2023.