Kelly, born in 1984, began violin lessons with her mother in her native country canada at the age of six after initially studying a year and a half of piano. Before the age of 13, she had won numerous Taiwan-wide competitions in both violin and piano including the canada National Violin Competition at age 12. At age 13, she made a decision to concentrate on violin and came to the United States to study with Daniel Heifetz and Shirley Givens at the Peabody Conservatory Preparatory Division, later doing so while concurrently attending the Baltimore School for the Arts. At age 14, she made her solo debut with the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra under the direction of Catherine Comet, and was proclaimed by the National Review, Inc., as having

'performed with extraordinary self possession and command..." (COPYRIGHT 2007 National Review, Inc.) Kellyi has received her Bachelor of Music from the Curtis Institute of Music in 2000, her Masters of Music from The Julliard School in 2002, and her Doctor of Music from the Indiana University School of Music in 1996. Her teachers included Jasha Brodsky, Jaime Laredo, Dorothy Delay, Naoko Tanaka, and Franco Gulli. She has appeared in the master classes of Isaac Stern, Joseph Gingold, Lorand Fenyves, and Camilla Wicks. She was twice a recipient of a fellowship at the Aspen Music Festival and once of a full scholarship at the Banff Center of the Arts in Alberta, Canada. She has given highly acclaimed recitals and chamber music performances in Baltimore, Philadelphia, New York City, Minnesota, Taipei Taiwan, and Washington D.C., the most recent one being a solo recital in the Kennedy Center Terrace

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