Blythe Teh Engström
- Viola
American violinist and violist Blythe Teh Engström studied violin with Nelli Shkolnikova, Mimi Zweig and Josef Gingold, and viola with Atar Arad at Indiana University in Bloomington. She subsequently studied with Andrés Cárdenes in Pittsburgh. A passionate chamber musician, she has collaborated with Menahem Pressler, Yuja Wang, Lisa Batiashvili, Joshua Bell, Renaud Capuçon, Leonidas Kavakos, Pinchas Zukerman, Lawrence Power, Nobuko Imai, Gautier Capuçon and the Quatuor Ébène. She was a member of the Quatuor Terpsycordes (Switzerland) and she is currently a member of the Serafino Quartet.
Blythe has performed in numerous festivals, such as the Miyazaki Festival in Japan, Schloss Elmau and Cappenberg in Germany, and Bellerive and Verbier Festivals in Switzerland. She is a founding member of the Verbier Festival Chamber Orchestra which, under Gábor Takács-Nagy, tours regularly with artists including Martha Argerich, Joshua Bell and Maxim Vengerov, and made its first recording with Maxim Vengerov for EMI. She has been the Chamber Orchestra’s concertmaster and currently leads the viola section.
Blythe Teh Engström plays on a beautiful Maggini viola, on generous loan from a private benefactor.