Natalya Bing is a violinist based in Queenstown, on the West Coast of Tasmania. Originally from the Central Coast NSW, she moved to Hobart in 2016 to pursue a Master of Music degree to research and explore violin improvisation practice in 18th-century Western classical music and improvisation practice techniques used in jazz violin playing. She was awarded the Jan Sedivka Scholarship for Strings in 2016 and the D & MV McDonald Scholarship for Strings in 2017 which funded a three-month study with Felix Andrievsky and Itzhak Rashkovsky at the Royal College of Music in London and David Taken at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama.
As an improviser and composer, she collaborates with sonic and visual artist Joshua Santospirito – forming the duo Bing/Santospirito in late 2019. In 2022 they received an Arts Tasmania residency grant, funding a one-month residency at All That We Are, TAS to explore their improvisational music practices. Since 2022, Natalya has been studying baroque violin with Van Diemen’s band artistic director Julia Fredersdorff and now performs regularly with the ensemble. In mid-2023 she embarked on further professional development in the field of baroque violin playing, studying with Sophie Gent at the Early Music Workshop in Cluny, France and with Enrico Gatti and Ryo Terakado at the Urbino Musica Antica Academy, Italy.