LI-WEI QIN

‘Li-Wei drew the audience in with his artistry, his brilliant virtuosity and his very refined musicality and sincerity of interpretation’ was the description of the cellist following his performance at the 11th Tchaikovsky International Competition where he was awarded the Silver Medal. He has since won the First Prize in the prestigious 2001 Naumburg Competition in New York.

Li-Wei has enjoyed successful artistic collaborations with the Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin and Janowski, London Philharmonic and Bostock, Prague Symphony and Wit, BBC Philharmonic and Totelier, Hong Kong Philharmonic and Van Zweden, Osaka Symphony and Belohlavek, Melbourne Symphony and Viotti, BBC Symphony and Van Steen, KBS Symphony and Marin, New Zealand Symphony and Lazarev, Ulster Orchestra and Fischer, Sydney Symphony and Tan Dun, BBC Scottish Symphony and Brabbins, China Philharmonic and Yu and Sinfonia Varsovia and the late Lord Menuhin. Li-Wei has appeared with chamber orchestras such as the Munich Chamber Orchestra, Zurich Chamber Orchestra, Australian Chamber Orchestra and the Kremerata Baltika.

In recital and chamber music, Li-Wei is a regular guest at Wigmore Hall and recently made highly successful debuts at New York’s Lincoln Centre and in San Francisco and Washington. He appears at the BBC Proms, the Rheinghau, The Shanghai International, the Storioni, the City of London, the Jerusalem and the Mecklenburg Festivals and broadcasts regularly on BBC Radio 3 and North Deutsche Radio. Qin Li-Wei records for Decca, EMI Classics (Asia), Cello Classics, ABC Classics and Channel Classics. He teaches cello at the Yong Siew Toh Conservatory of Music, Singapore.