Debra Fong
Debra has held the position of Lecturer in Music at
Stanford University since 2004, teaching violin and
chamber music. She received her Bachelor and Master
of Music degrees in Violin Performance with Honors
and Distinction from the New England Conservatory of
Music in Boston, where she studied under the guidance
of Eric Rosenblith, James Buswell, Eugene Lehner, and
Louis Krasner. Debra has participated in numerous
summer chamber music festivals, including Taos School
of Music, Yale/Norfolk Chamber Music Festival, Yellow Barn Music Festival, Grand
Teton Music Festival, and Sarasota Chamber Music Festival. She has been a featured
guest artist of Stanford University’s Pan-Asian Music Festival, Bay Chamber Concerts in
Maine, the St. Lawrence String Quartet, Chicago Chamber Musicians, North American
New Music Festival, Santa Fe Pro Musica, and the New Music Festival at Santa Clara
University, and she has performed on live radio broadcasts from WGBH/Boston and
WFMT/Chicago. Debra is a former faculty member at The Music Institute of Chicago,
The College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia, and the New England
Conservatory of Music Preparatory School. She performs frequently throughout the Bay
Area with several ensembles, such as the San Francisco Chamber Orchestra, Opera San
Jose, San Jose Chamber Orchestra, and Symphony Silicon Valley, and she maintains a
private violin studio in Palo Alto. Debra spends her summers as a first violinist with The
Santa Fe Opera in New Mexico, where she has collaborated with esteemed conductors
such as Alan Gilbert, Edo DeWaart, and Leonard Slatkin. In her leisure time, Debra
enjoys traveling, reading modern fiction, practicing yoga, and tinkering with her digital
camera. She is married to cellist Christopher Costanza, and they have a joyful teenage
daughter, Isabella.