NCCP WELCOMES VIOLIST AH LING NEU

North Country Chamber Players Welcomes
Noted Violist as a Permanent Member of the Group


The North Country Chamber Players (NCCP)are pleased to announce that Ah Ling Neu will join the ensemble as permanent violist. The Chamber Players are presenting their 32nd Annual White Mountain Music Festival, July 10 through August 16 in Sugar Hill, Lancaster, Haverhill and Lincoln. This year’s festival will include a special concert in New London, NH. Further information may be found at www.northcountrychamberplayers.org.

Ah Ling Neu, of Chinese parentage, began playing the viola at age 13 in the San Francisco public school system. She demonstrated both talent and interest as she continued her studies through the San Francisco Conservatory of Music and then the Royal Conservatory in The Hague. Currently, the Principal violist of the Brandenburg Ensemble, she performs frequently with the American Symphony and several other orchestras including Orpheus, NYC Opera and American Composers.

As an avid Chamber musician, she is known as a long-time member of the New York Philomusica and has performed at the Bridgehampton and Manchester Music Festivals. She has been a guest artist at several NCCP programs in recent years.
Ms. Neu is frequently heard in festivals like Spoleto Festival in Charleston, SC, the Casals Festival in Japan and the Schleswig-Holstein Festival in Germany. A highly respected teacher, she is on the faculty of Columbia University and has taught at the Bennington Chamber Music Conference.
Featured on numerous recordings, Ah Ling can be heard on the recently released recording of Fantasy Suite for solo viola by Harold Hoffman.
She resides in Brooklyn, N.Y. with her family.

For additional information about Ms. Neu, please call the NCCP at 603-444-0309 or e-mail us at nccp@ncia.net