Celebrated for a “tone like toasted caramel. Amazing.” (Musical Toronto), Eric Wong is the violist of the Blair String Quartet and assistant professor of viola at Vanderbilt University’s Blair School of Music. He is a former member of the Cavani, Afiara, and Linden String Quartets. During the summer season, he is on artist faculty rosters for Encore Chamber Music Institute’s Summer Academy, Pacific Crest Music Festival, Harpa International Music Academy, and Music at Port Milford and a frequent guest artist at the Geneva Music Festival, Caroga Lake Music Festival, and Summer Music Vancouver. Eric earned degrees studying violin with Paul Kantor and viola with Kirsten Docter and Lynne Ramsey. He holds an artist diploma from the Yale School of Music where he worked with Kazuhide Isomura and the Tokyo String Quartet.