About Ms. Ran
Born in Shanghai, China, Ran Tao came to the United States at the age of seventeen to study at the Manhattan School of Music in New York City, studying under some of the greatest musicians of our time - violinist Stanley Bednar, Sheryl Staples, Michelle Kim, Anna Rabinova amongst many others. Recipient of the Stamas Fund Scholarship Award from the New York Philharmonic. Ran studied Chamber Ensembles with Isidore Cohen, Sylvia Rosenberg and the American String Quartet. She has played with many orchestras and world renowned classical musicians such as Hillary Hahn, Evgeny Kissin, conductors James Levine, Christopher Eschenbach and Michael Tilson Thomas. Through her career Ran has performed at Lincoln Center, Carnegie Hall, Alice Tully Hall, Opera House Opernhaus in Austria, Vienna Opera Haus, St. Marks Basilica Venice.
Ran holds both Bachelor of Music and Masters of Music in Violin Performance from Manhattan School of Music in New York City. She also is a trained Suzuki Method violin teacher from Ithaca College School of Music in New York.
