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Chiun-Teng Cheng (鄭俊騰)

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Chiun-Teng Cheng (鄭俊騰)

Identity Snapshot

  • English: Chiun-Teng Cheng
  • Chinese: 鄭俊騰
  • Era: Birth Place
  • Geography: First year, first city and state in the U.S.
  • Core roles: Taiwanese American (TAH Who’s Who)
  • Source: TAH Foundation Who’s Who

Chiun-Teng Cheng was born in Taiwan and went to the United States in 1986 and was recognized as a vigorous and gifted player. He pursued his Master’s degree as a pupil of legendary pedagogy Dorothy DeLay, Eric Rosenblith, and Matsuko Ushioda at the New England Conservatory. His chamber music teachers included Leonard Shure, Eugene Lehner, and Louis Krasner. Cheng began violin studies when he was quite little. He earned his Bachelor’s degree from National Taiwan Normal University while studying with Prof. Shu-Te Sylvia Lee. He won the position of the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra in 1993 and has been a tutti violinist in the orchestra since then. Besides, being a professional musician, he has also a great love of collecting rare violins and bows. He had the privilege to study string instrument identification under the famous connoisseur Jacques Francais in 1990s.

Education

  • 國立師範大學 — year — B.A. 音樂系
  • 新英格蘭音樂學院 — year — M.S. 音樂系

Employment

  • 美國辛辛那提交響樂團 — present — 小提琴家
  • 新英格蘭音樂學院 — 交響樂團首席之一

Career Notes (absorbed from TAH bio)

  • Teachers (violin): Dorothy DeLay, Eric Rosenblith, Matsuko Ushioda (New England Conservatory); undergrad studies with Prof. Shu-Te Sylvia Lee at National Taiwan Normal University
  • Chamber music teachers: Leonard Shure, Eugene Lehner, Louis Krasner
  • Principal/lead roles: concertmaster of the New England Conservatory Symphony Orchestra (per employment table)
  • Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra: won the position in 1993; tutti violinist since
  • String connoisseurship: studied rare violin and bow identification under Jacques Francais in the 1990s; collector of rare violins and bows

Timeline

  • Born in Taiwan; began violin studies in early childhood
  • 1986 — moved to the United States
  • 1990s — studied string instrument identification with Jacques Francais
  • 1993 — won a position in the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra
  • 2015 — profiled in the TAH encyclopedia: [[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/130-chiun-teng-cheng-e9-84-ad-e4-bf-8a-e9-a8-b0-violinist-201502|#130, Violinist / 2015/02]] and [[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/10126|#243 / 2015/02]]

Family

No filled family fields on the TAH profile.

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Connected in the Vault

Vault re-check 2026-09-14 (deepen-x slice 09140020-9, vault-only)

Re-check: the #243 encyclopedia record is held in-vault at [[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/10126|TAH #243]] (already linked in Timeline); all other wikilink targets verified present. No additional vault-only facts beyond those absorbed. No web used, nothing published.

Corpus re-check 2026-09-14 (deepen-x slice 09141300-10)

SKIP-with-reason: corpus grep of content/works + content/articles for 鄭俊騰/Chiun-Teng returns only his own TAH records #130 and #243 (both already wikilinked in Timeline/Connected sections) plus the works index. No memoir, Our Journeys, or article material mentions him — no community/corpus facts absorbable beyond the TAH press-kit bio already absorbed. Nothing published.

Corpus re-check 2026-09-14 (deepen-x slice 09142101-1)

SKIP-with-reason: corpus grep of content/works + content/articles for 鄭俊騰/Chiun-Teng again returns only his own TAH records 243 (both already wikilinked in Timeline/Connected sections). No memoir or article mentions; nothing absorbable. last_reviewed already 2026-09-14. Nothing published.

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