Fiona Yuan, a high school senior based in Boston, Massachusetts, has grown up playing the violin with the Boston String Academy; now, as the concertmaster of the Youth Ensemble she continues to play in various performances in the New England area. Additionally, as a member of the Boston Philharmonic Youth Orchestra under conductor Benjamin Zander, she has performed in Boston Symphony Hall and participated in a “tour of possibility” to South Africa, collaborating in musical exchanges and sharing music in South Africa’s renowned halls, emphasizing music as a means of social change. Fiona has also represented the U.S. as the assistant concertmaster of  El Sistema’s World Orchestra in Venezuela, playing with musicians worldwide fostered under the same El Sistema ideology with the assistance of the Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra. She has also participated in music festivals such as the Interlochen Arts Camp in Michigan, where she has served as the concertmaster of the Interlochen Philharmonic and member of the World Youth Symphony Orchestra, Orquestra Geraçao in Lisbon, Portugal, Festival Groba in Galicia, Spain, and the YOLA National Festival, where she has sat assistant concertmaster of the Symphony Orchestra, performing in Walt Disney Concert Hall under LA Phil conductor Gustavo Dudamel. She was a winner of the 2020 Longy School of Music Side by Side concerto competition. Fiona currently studies with Mariesther Alvarez and Anthony Morales, and has participated in masterclasses with Midori Goto, Rictor Noren, Lucia Lin, among others. Outside of music, Fiona writes and edits for her school newspaper and leads various cultural shows and community service initiatives.