Chinese artists by Michel Nau - Ning Feng  宁峰

 
 

 

 
 

 

 
 

Ning Feng

 
 

宁峰

 
 

 

 
 

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1982

Ning Feng 宁峰 was born in Chengdu, Sichuan Province  China.

   
     -  Education
 

He learned to play the violin at the age of four at the Sichuan Conservatory of music

  with Hu Weimin.
 

He joined the Hanns Eisler School of Music in Berlin, under the direction Antje Weithaas.

 

He entered the Royal Academy of Music in London and became a student of Hu Kun

   
    -  Awards selection

2003

Winner

Joseph Joachim International Violin Competition in Hanovere

2003

Winner

Queen Elizabeth International Violin Competition

2005

Winner

Yehudi Menuhin International Violin Competition

2005

First Prize

Michael Hill New Zealand International Violin Competition

2006

First Prize

Paganini international Competition - Genova

2008

He composed the music for the opening ceremony of the Beijing Olympic Games

 

 

 

    -  Career
 

He rubbed shoulders with the greatest chefs: selection

 

Marin Alsop - Gianandrea Noseda - Yu Long - Vassily Petrenko

 

- Tugan Sokhiev -  Vladimir Spivakov...

   
 

He performed with the following symphony orchestras : selection

 

 - Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, Australia

 

 - San Francisco Symphony Orchestra, United States

 

 - Seattle Symphony Orchestra, United States

 

 - National Symphony Orchestra of China

 

 - Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra, Germany

 

 - São Paulo Symphony Orchestra, Brazil

 

 - Shanghai Symphony Orchestra, China

   
 

He played with the philharmonic orchestras: selection :

 

 - Dortmund Philharmonic Orchestra, Germany

 

 - Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra

 

 - Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra, New York - Seattle, USA

 

 - Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra, Finland

 

 - Hangzhou Philharmonic Orchestra

 

 - Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra

 

 - London Philharmonic Orchestra

 

 - Seoul Philharmonic Orchestra

 

 - Strasbourg Philharmonic Orchestra

   
 

He participated in numerous music festivals :  sélection

 

the Menuhin Festival in Gstaad - the Kissinger Sommer Festival

 

the Monritzburg Festival

   

2012

He formed the String Quartet : Dragon Quartet,with three other Chinese musicians :

 

Ning Feng First Violin - Wang Xiaomao Second ViolIn

 

Zheng Wenxiao Violist - Qin Liwei Cellist.

 

Their aim is to make rarely performed pieces known and to promote

 

contemporary works by Chinese composers.

   

2019

Dragon Quartet  - Alexandre Borodine    quartet n°2  

 

                               - Mieczyslaw Weinberg quartet n°5

 

                               - Dimitri Shostakovitch  quartet n°8

   

2023

He went on tour in Asia to Hong Kong, Bangkok, Taiwan and ended

 

in Japan, at the Opera City in Tokyo.

   
  He lives in Berlin  Germany.
   
  Daniele Sicard
   

 

 

   - Discography selection

 

He recorded under the Dutch label specializing in classical music :

  Channel classics Records.

2008

  - Hello Mr.Paganini

2013

 - Sonatas for solo violin by Bartók, Prokofiev, and Hindemith

2018

 - Bach sonatas and scores for solo violinl

 

 - Nin Feng violin - Paganini  CD

2021

 - 24 Caprices opus 1 (1817), inspired by the pieces of the same name by Pietro

 

Locatelli (1733).

2023

 - Brahms: Violin Sonatas Ning Feng  Violin -  Zee Zee Piano

2024

Release of his album First Violin Concertos by Shostakovich and Prokofiev

 

alongside the Bochum Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Tung-Chieh Chuang.

   

 

 

 

 


 

 
 

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