Violin
Julia Wong
About
Julia Wong began Suzuki violin instruction with Louise Behrend privately and at the School for Strings in New York City. Accepted into the Juilliard School’s Pre-College Division at age 9, she continued studies with Sally Thomas there and at the Meadowmount School of Music. During a brief family move to Little Rock, Arkansas, she became the youngest member of the Arkansas Symphony at 14.
A committed orchestral musician for almost 5 decades, Julia has held principal chairs in numerous groups and currently serves as concertmaster of the New Philharmonia Orchestra (Newton), assistant concertmaster of the Boston Civic Symphony, and associate/assistant concertmaster of the Mercury Orchestra (Cambridge). She also performs with the Brookline Symphony, and occasionally in other amateur and professional settings in and around Boston and New York.
Outside of orchestral pursuits, Julia enjoys playing chamber music, ballet (as an audience member or in the pit), and is a radiation oncologist at Brigham and Women’s Hospital/Dana-Farber Cancer Institute specializing in breast cancer. Her undergraduate degree is from the University of Pennsylvania. She completed her medical degree and residency training in Boston and is an associate professor of radiation oncology at Harvard Medical School. She serves on the Boston Ballet Board of Advisors and the Meadowmount School’s Board of Directors.
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