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Ying Fu is currently the associate concertmaster of the National Symphony Orchestra in Washington D.C. Prior to this appointment in January 2019, Mr. Fu was the associate concertmaster of The Philadelphia Orchestra for six years as well as a member of the first violin section in The Cleveland Orchestra for two years. He is also a frequent guest concertmaster for the Shanghai Philharmonic Orchestra and a visiting professor at the Shanghai Conservatory of Music in China. In 2012, Mr. Fu won the First Prize in the 31^st “Rodolfo Lipizer” International Violin Competition in Italy as well as four Special Prizes. He also holds the top prizes from the 2011 Schmidbauer International Competition, the 2009 Washington International Music Competition, and the 2008 “HAMS” Violin Competition in Chicago. His music making includes performances in many major cities in the United States, Europe, and Asia.

Originally from Shanghai, China, Mr. Fu started to play violin at the age of three. He went on to earn his Bachelor of Music from the Shanghai Conservatory of Music in China and earned his Master of Music from the Shepherd School of Music with Professor Sergiu Luca at Rice University in the United States. After two years of a doctoral program with Professor Cho-Liang Lin and Sergiu Luca at the Shepherd School of Music, he joined the renowned Cleveland Orchestra in August of 2011.

With his great enthusiasm for chamber music, Mr. Fu has participated in many renowned summer music festivals, including Marlboro Music Festival, Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival in Germany, and the Taos Chamber Music Festival in which he has worked and performed with many great musicians, including pianists Richard Goode and Mitsuko Uchida, cellist Peter Wiley, violists Kim Kashkashian, Samuel Rhodes, and Michael Tree, and the Shanghai Quartet, Borromeo String Quartet, St. Lawrence String Quartet, and the Brentano String Quartet with pianist Robert McDonald.

Distinguished by his talents and leadership, Mr. Fu has served as the concertmaster of Schleswig-Holstein Symphony Orchestra in Germany, where he performed under Maestro Christoph Eschenbach and Valery Gergiev. He has also served as the guest concertmaster for Houston Symphony and Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra. Fu has served as a jury member for many young artist music competitions, including Greenfield Competition, and a faculty member for the Calvin String Summit in Michigan, the Philadelphia International Music Festival, the National Symphony Orchestra Summer Music Institute at the Kennedy Center, as well as the National Youth Orchestra of America.

Mr. Fu has been an active violin teacher since 2002. Mr. Fu was a teaching assistant while pursuing his master's and doctoral degrees at Rice University in Houston. During this time, he formed his own studio of 18 students, ranging from four-year-old children to adults. During his six years in Philadelphia, Mr. Fu focused on helping young violinists become professionals. His students have been accepted by such renowned institutions as the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia, New England Conservatory in Boston, The Julliard School in New York City, and Indiana University. Mr. Fu has given many master classes all over the world. As he describes, teaching others is a fantastic way to teach himself. He currently lives in McLean, Virginia.