YANG, TIANWA (b 1987 )

Tianwa Yang was born in 1987 in Beijing and started studying the violin at the age of four. Phenomenal progress quickly followed, as testified by her victory at six of the seven violin competitions she entered. At the age of ten she was accepted as a student by the well-known violin teacher Lin Yaoji at the Central Conservatory of Music. Within a year she had many invitations for solo recitals and appearances with orchestras. Since then she has performed at major cities across Asia, including Beijing, Shanghai, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Singapore and Tokyo.

International masters such as Isaac Stern, who invited her to the United States, praised her talent and in 2004 she was awarded the ‘Star of Tomorrow’ prize of the Volkswagenstiftung (China) from Seiji Ozawa. At the age of thirteen she recorded Paganini’s 24 Caprices and in 2001 made her European début in Prague, where she played Mendelssohn’s Violin Concerto in E minor with the Czech Broadcasting Symphony Orchestra. There followed recitals in Paris, Stockholm, Frankfurt and Vienna.

In 2003 she played Prokofiev’s Violin Concerto No. 2 in the Munich National Theatre with the orchestra of Bavarian State Opera. Awarded a German government scholarship in 2003 for the study of chamber music in Germany, Tianwa Yang now studies currently with Lin Yaoji in Beijing and Jörg-Wolfgang Jahn in Karlsruhe, with further training from Gerhard Schulz of the Alban Berg Quartet and from Anner Bylsma for baroque music. In 2006 she won the Mont Blanc Prize.

For more information please visit the website www.tianwayang.com.

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Albums featuring this artist are available for download from ClassicsOnline.com
NAXOS 20TH ANNIVERSARY CONCERT (NTSC)	2.110227
SARASATE: Music for Violin and Piano, Vol. 1	8.557767
SARASATE: Music for Violin and Piano, Vol. 2	8.570192