Ming-hang Tam

Violin Faculty

Ming-hang Tam is a Boston-based concert violinist featured on The Boston Globe. He performs as the concertmaster at The Cambridge Chamber Ensemble and Shift Orchestra Project, violin soloist and chamber musician at South Shore Conservatory and Duxbury Music Festival, as well as section violinist at Boston Philharmonic, Plymouth Philharmonic and Cape Symphony.

Ming-hang has collaborated with Grammy Award-winning musical artists for world/state/city premieres. He has appeared with Renée Fleming and has presented new works by Jennifer Higdon, Kevin Puts, and Aaron Jay Kernis at Boston Symphony Hall, Plymouth Memorial Hall, Alice Tully Hall at the Lincoln Center in New York City, and Kodak Hall at the Eastman Theatre in Rochester, New York.

His recent Boston premiere was Ethel Smyth’s Mass in D (1891) with Shift Orchestra Project and Cappella Clausura at the Emmanuel Church in the City of Boston in early March 2024. He was also the proofreader of its new Amelia LeClair Edition for the world premiere.

Mr. Tam serves as a violin teaching artist at Crescendo Music Education of Boston Philharmonic. He is on violin faculty at South Shore Conservatory in Hingham, Boston String Academy in Chinatown and Allston, and Suzuki School of Newton. His students were awarded prizes in annual Youth Concerto and String Competitions.

Ming-hang holds a Master of Music degree in Violin Performance with Academic Honors from the New England Conservatory (NEC) in the studio of Nicholas Kitchen, and a Bachelor of Music degree in Applied Music (Violin) from the Eastman School of Music with Renée Jolles. Named on the Dean’s List for his academic excellence at both schools, he was the recipient of Dean’s Scholarship at NEC, Howard Hanson Scholarship at Eastman, and other merit scholarships at Heifetz International Music Institute, Bowdoin International Music Festival, and Catskill High Peaks Festival.