London-based American violinist Shana Douglas’s recent performances include chamber music recitals at Kings Place and Barbican Hall, London, concertos by Barber, Beethoven, Brahms, Dvořák, and Mozart with orchestras in the UK and the USA, and a solo recital in Molière Hall in Lyon, France. Having begun her violin studies at the age of four, Shana went on to earn her Bachelors Degree in May of 2006 from the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia, where she studied for five years as a student of Ida Kavafian and Arnold Steinhardt and was the recipient of the Harry Springman Memorial Fellowship. Following her graduation from Curtis, Shana moved to London to pursue studies with David Takeno at the Guildhall School where she spent three years as a Guildhall Artist Fellow, after first receiving her Masters Degree with Distinction in 2007. Other important mentors of Shana’s include Shmuel Ashkenasi and Miriam Fried.

Shana has been featured as a soloist with orchestra twice at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., and has also performed a full solo recital on the esteemed “Dame Myra Hess” Recital Series which took place in Chicago’s Cultural Center and was broadcast live on television and radio. While a student at Curtis, she performed alongside a distinguished line-up of violin virtuosos including Maxim Vengerov and Mark O’Connor in a benefit concert at the Apollo Theater in Harlem, New York, at the invitation of Arnold Steinhardt. A dedicated chamber musician, Shana has collaborated with renowned artists such as Atar Arad, Roberto Diaz, Gil Kalish, Kim Kashkashian, and Steven Tenenbom at festivals such as the Ravinia Festival, Chicago and the IMS Prussia Cove Open Chamber Music Sessions, Cornwall. Shana was also the Artistic Director of the former “Accord et a Cordes” Chamber Music Festival, which took place in the South of France for five summer seasons, and more recently, she has created The Glenn Douglas Winter Chamber Music Festival, ongoing for one week annually in North Miami Beach, Florida.

In addition to fulfilling her solo and chamber music concert schedule, Shana is also an avid orchestral musician, and she currently holds the No. 4 First Violin (Assistant Concertmaster) position in the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. She has appeared as Guest Concertmaster of the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra and the English National Opera, Assistant Concertmaster of the Philharmonia Orchestra, and Principal Second Violin of the English Chamber Orchestra, as well as working with the London Symphony Orchestra and the Academy of St-Martin-in-the-Fields. Her orchestral career has taken her all over the world from Jamaica to Azerbaijan to China, and she has performed in celebrated concert halls such as New York’s Carnegie Hall and Vienna’s Musikverein. Shana currently plays a violin built in 1743 by Carlo Antonio Testore, on loan to her by the Dutch Jumpstart Jr Foundation. In her spare time, she enjoys cooking, baking, spending time with friends, watching tennis, and studying orchestral conducting.