Evelina Chao

Evelina Chao (born 1949) is an American violinist of Chinese descent.

Early life Chao was born in Chicago, Illinois to Edward C. T. Chao and Vera Lin. From 1968 to 1969 she attended Oberlin College, but transferred and earned a bachelor of music degree from the Juilliard School in 1972 where she was Dorothy DeLay and Ivan Galamian scholar. Between 1972 and 1974, she played her first violin at the Amici Quartet of Binghamton University from which she obtained her master's degree in 1974.

Since 2008, she is a music director at the Madeline Island Music Camp. In 2013, she was one of 10 performers that filed retirement from the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra.

Chao is also an author of the 2004 memoir Yeh Yeh's House and is an author of the 1985 Gates of Grace.