Gloria Yip is a highly sought after performer and pedagogue, recognized for her unique musicality and dynamic performances. Born in Toronto to a musical family, Gloria showed an early talent for music and began the violin at the age of six. She has received a number of awards and accolades, including first prize at the Prix Ravel competition with string quartet, a grant from the Canada Council for the Arts, and an Ihnatowycz Emerging Artist Scholarship from the Glenn Gould School. In 2021, she obtained a Doctorate of Musical Arts degree from the University of Toronto, where she studied as a full scholarship student with Dr. Timothy Ying and was awarded the Palmason Graduate Fellowship in Violin.
Gloria has performed in some of Toronto’s most celebrated concert halls, including Koerner Hall, the Four Seasons Centre, Meridian Arts Centre and Roy Thomson Hall. She has performed as an orchestral player under the batons of Gábor Takács-Nagy, Tania Miller, Leon Fleisher, and Johannes Debus, and has also performed with the Canadian Opera Company as an orchestral academist. She also regularly performs as a soloist and chamber musician and has appeared on Hamilton’s Cable 14 TV network, with the Nexus Percussion Ensemble, with Rob Kapilow in his “What Makes it Great” concert series, and with Confluence Concerts featuring Dean Ellie Hisama of UofT’s Faculty of Music.
Gloria is also committed to promoting classical music and making it accessible to new audiences. She has served as a mentor to young musicians in various highschools throughout the GTA and has also performed in a number of non-traditional concert spaces, including the ROM, Open Studio Contemporary Printmaking Centre, the AGO, Performing Arts Lodge and Union Station.
Prior to completing her doctoral degree at UofT, Gloria was a full scholarship student at the Glenn Gould School, obtaining an Artist Diploma under the tutelage of Paul Kantor and Barry Shiffman. She also holds a Masters of Music degree from Indiana University, studying with Mauricio Fuks. Before choosing to pursue music professionally, she obtained an Honours Bachelor of Science from UofT, double-majoring in psychology and music and graduating with honours. Her doctoral dissertation centres around themes of wellbeing and fulfilment through exploring the narratives of three graduate-level string majors.