Ike See

Violin

Chair sponsored by Ian Lansdown and Tricia Bell

Violinist Ike See joined the Australian Chamber Orchestra in 2013.

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A three-time first prize winner at the Singapore National Violin Competition, Ike has performed across Asia, Australia, Europe and North America as a soloist, chamber musician and orchestral player.

Ike grew up in Singapore as one of four children. He began violin lessons at the age of four with Sylvia Khoo and won his first national competition at the age of ten. He later studied with Qian Zhou, Head of Strings at the Yong Siew Toh Conservatory of Music before moving to Philadelphia to attend the Curtis Institute of Music, where he completed a Bachelor of Music under the tutelage of Joseph Silverstein and Pamela Frank.

Prior to joining the ACO, Ike was Associate Concertmaster of the Adelaide Symphony Orchestra and played as Principal Second Violin of the Curtis Symphony Orchestra and Associate Concertmaster of Symphony in C. He has been a member of the Verbier and Pacific Music Festival Orchestras and has performed at the Amelia Island Chamber Music Festival, Kirishima International Music Festival, Singapore Arts Festival, Singapore Chamber Music Festival, Heifetz International Music Institute, and Curtis on Tour in Europe.

He studied chamber music with members of the Guarneri, Orion and Vermeer Quartets, and has collaborated with musicians including Roberto Diaz, James Dunham, Pamela Frank, Karen Gomyo, Susan Graham, Clive Greensmith, Gary Hoffman, and Anthony McGill.

Ike is proud to play on the first instrument he can truly call his own, made for him in 2021 by Brooklyn-based luthier Sam Zygmuntowicz.