ArcoStrum

Lauded as a winner – and Audience Prize recipient – of the 2023 Concert Artists Guild (CAG) Elmaleh Competition in New York and the first-ever violin-guitar duo to win the competition in its 70+ year history, ArcoStrum consists of three-time international First Prize-winning violinist Strauss Shi and TY Zhang, the Grand Prize winner of the Guitar Foundation of America-International Concert Artist Competition (GFA-ICAC). ArcoStrum captures the hearts of audiences through their charisma, virtuosity, and dazzling on-stage chemistry. The group’s name is a portmanteau fusing a bowing technique for the violin and the motion used to create sound on a guitar. The Duo met at The Juilliard School and soon discovered their chemistry not only as friends but in music-making. ArcoStrum is committed to pushing boundaries and redefining the 21st-century violin-guitar art form, presenting a new chamber music that is mixed-genre, multi-cultural, and cross-era.

Official Website:
www.arcostrum.com