Ariel Lang

French/American violinist Ariel Lang is presently manager and principal second violin of the United Strings of Europe chamber orchestra, with whom he tours Europe and the Middle East. An avid orchestral musician, he has performed with such orchestras as the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, the Royal Ballet Sinfonia, the Northern Lights Symphony Orchestra, Britten Sinfonia and the London Sinfonietta. He has been concertmaster of the Royal Academy Symphony and Concert Orchestras on numerous occasions under the baton of Edward Gardner, Semyon Bychkov, Christian Thielemann as well as having led sections at the Royal Academy Sainsbury Soloists with Clio Gould. 

A committed chamber musician, he has co-founded the Arcana Ensemble, the prize-winning Omega Trio, the Tagus Quartet, which received a Royal Academy Chamber Music Fellowship and has partnered with the Doric Quartet. and has toured in Europe and the United States.

A winner of the Harold Craxton Competition for Piano Ensembles and the Wolfe Wolfinsohn Prize, he completed his bachelor’s and master’s degree under Jack Liebeck at the Royal Academy of Music in London, graduating with distinction (DipRAM) in 2016. He has participated in masterclasses with Maxim Vengerov, Gyorgy Pauk, Norma Fischer, Albrecht Breuninger. Pavel Fischer, Jan Talich, Mateja Marinkovic, and members of the Escher Quartet.

Together with the Arcana Ensemble, Ariel is a Concordia Foundation alumnus.

Ariel is co-founder of MyLuthier, (myluthier.co) an organisation devoted to promoting modern stringed instruments, and he plays on a modern instrument made in 2002 by the widely acclaimed Stefan Peter Greiner.