Biography

A native of Hong Kong, Agnes Tse joined the first violin section of the Houston Symphony in September of 2026. Prior to joining the Houston Symphony, she was a section first violinist in the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra. She holds Bachelor and Master of Music degrees from the Juilliard School, studying with Lewis Kaplan and Joel Smirnoff.

Ms. Tse has appeared as a soloist with the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra and the Pan Asia Symphony Orchestra. She has been heard at the Verbier Festival, Tanglewood Music Center, Music Academy of the West, Bach Virtuosi Festival, New York String Orchestra Seminar at Carnegie Hall, Bowdoin International Music Festival and the International Summer Academy, Mozarteum Universität Salzburg; where she studied with Pierre Amoyal and Zakhar Bron. A winner of the inaugural Keston MAX Fellowship at the Music Academy of the West in 2018, she performed with the London Symphony Orchestra under Sir Simon Rattle at the Barbican Centre. An avid chamber musician, she has appeared in the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra’s Chamber Music by Candlelight Series, Juilliard’s ChamberFest and London Symphony Orchestra’s Discovery Day at LSO St. Luke’s. She has also performed with the two contemporary music ensembles at the Juilliard School, AXIOM and New Juilliard Ensemble.

Ms. Tse is a former Co-Concertmaster of the Juilliard Orchestra and a former Assistant Concertmaster of Symphony in C; and has also performed with the New York Philharmonic and Princeton Symphony Orchestra. Passionate in education, she has worked with students of the Baltimore Symphony Youth Orchestras and Maryland Classic Youth Orchestras in masterclasses and sectionals. Her first orchestra experience was from age 9 to 16 with the Hong Kong Children’s Symphony Orchestra, with which she has toured across Australia, Canada, China, New Zealand and the United States, serving as Concertmaster and soloist.