Vera, TSU Weiling, serving as a Adjunct Professor at the School of Music, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen, is a renowned violinist and educator, Vice-President of China Violin Society and China Federation of Chamber Musician, the Co-Chairman of the Shanghai Isaac Stern International Violin Competition as well as Chairman of Violin Jury Harbin International Music Competition. Born in Shanghai, during the distinguished international violin master Isaac Stern’s first visit to China in 1979, as a sophomore from the Central Conservatory in Beijing, TSU performed for Mr. Stern and was featured in the overwhelming Oscar-winning documentary From Mao to Mozart: Isaac Stern in China. Ms. TSU went to the USA in 1980, where she continued her study with Dorothy DeLay and Rafael Bronstein, who was then the only living disciple of violin ancestor Leopold Auer. She graduated from the Juilliard School and Manhattan School of Music with master’s degrees. From 1993-2000, Ms. TSU was the first associated concertmaster of Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra.

Ms. TSU has been invited to sit on the jury of many prestigious competitions worldwide, including the Queen Elizabeth Competition of Belgium (2009, 2012), Henryk Wieniawski Violin Competition Poznan (2011, 2016), Menuhin Competition, Pablo Sarasate International Violin Competition, Montreal International Musical Competition and the remarkable XV Tchaikovsky Violin Competition Moscow in 2015.

As an educator, Vera, TSU Weiling organized and attended Master Classes and seminars in several countries and regions in the world. Her students won many prizes and gained a great reputation in international competitions. As a soloist, she has also been performing on stages with both domestic and international orchestras including WDR Sinfonieorchester Koeln, the New York City Symphony, the New York Symphonic Ensemble, the Charleston Symphony, London Chamber players, the Orchestra de Cannes, the Budapest Radio Orchestra, the Slovakia Radio Orchestra, Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Novosibirsk Symphony Orchestra, the orchestra of Nordwestdeutscher Rundfunk, the Hanover Symphony Orchestra, the Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Hong Kong Philharmonic, the Singapore Symphony Orchestra, China National Symphony Orchestra, Guangzhou Symphony Orchestra, China Philharmonic Orchestra, and the Shanghai Symphony Orchestra. Vera, TSU Weiling’s 20th anniversary of teaching concert was successfully held at the Shanghai Symphony Orchestra Concert Hall on March 8, 2021.