Staff Details

Quan Jiang maintains a busy schedule as soloist, chamber musician, conductor and teacher. Quan has been the conductor of the Houston Youth String Orchestra for the past four seasons as well as guest conductor of the Kataoka school orchestra in Japan. Quan served as Assistant Concertmaster of the San Antonio Symphony for three seasons before joining as a member of the Houston Symphony Orchestra first violin section for six seasons. He was also the Concertmaster of the Cypress Philharmonic for eight seasons. A top prize winner of the Enrico Fermi violin competition and Fischoff chamber music competition, Quan has been a soloist with the San Antonio Symphony, the Adelphi chamber orchestra, the New York Pro Arte chamber orchestra, and the Manhattan Symphony.

Quan's chamber music credits include: original member of the Grammy winning Camerata San Antonio, the Gotham String Quartet (graduate quartet-in-residence at Rice University), the Jiang Duo and the Equinox Quartet, which exclusively recorded for the Eroica label. He has collaborated with Glenn Dicterow, Paul Katz, Ruth Laredo, Ivo Van Der Werff, William Bolcom and the St. Lawrence Quartet. As a devoted music educator he has held a private studio as well as giving coachings, masterclasses throughout Texas, the USA, Japan and China. He enjoys cooking, traveling, and spending time with his wife, Chizu, and his daughter, Mitsuki.