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Tianwa Yang

 
 

杨天娲

 
 

 

 
 

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Tianwa Yang  杨天娲 pinyin Yang Tianwa

   
  -  Education

1987

Tianwa Yang 杨天娲  was born in Beijing, China, on April 8th, into a modest family.

 

She discovered the violin at the age of four and gained recognition by winning

 

six competitions.

1997

She entered the Central Conservatory of Music in Beijing, under the direction of

 

Lin Yaoji (1937-2009)

2000

She recorded Paganini's 24 Caprices, becoming the youngest artist to publish

 

her works.

2003

At sixteen, she received a scholarship to study in Germany with chamber

 

violinist Jörg-Wolfgang Jahn at the Karlsruhe School of Music, Germany.

 

 

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     -  Celebrity
   
 

She participated in numerous Festivals:

 

- Beijing Music Festival

 

- Rheingau Music Festival  Germany

 

- Ravinia Festival, Highland Park, Illinois  United States

 

- Virginia Arts Festival  United States

 

- Heidelberg Spring Festival  Germany

 

- Schwetzinger Festival  Germany

   
 

She performed with the greatest orchestras:

 

- Philharmonic Orchestras of :

 

Berlin - Dresden - Helsinki - Hong Kong - London - Strasbourg.

 

- Symphony Orchestras of :

 

Baltimore - Detroit - Seattle - Sydney - Toledo - Vancouver

 

- Bonn Touring Symphony Orchestra

   
 

She gave recitals in North America, Australia, Europe and New Zealand.

 

She performed in concert halls throughout North America and Australia,

 

Salle Playel in Paris  France, Wigmore Hall in London United Kingdom,

 

and the Rose Theater and Lincoln Center in New York City...

   
 

She is a professor of violin at the Bern University of the Arts in Switzerland

 

and at the Würzburg University of Music in Germany.

 

 

  Daniele Sicard
   

   
  Awards selection
 

2006

Star of Tomorrow Volkswagen Foundation Prize

2014

Annual German Record Critics' Award

2015

Opus Klassik Award for Instrumentalist of the Year (violin) for Ysaÿe's

 

Six Sonatas for Solo Violin, Op. 27

2022

Opus Klassik Award for Instrumentalist of the Year (violin)

 

Prokofiev's No. 1 and 2

     
   
   
  Discography selection
   
 

Johannes BRAHMS : Violin Concerto / Double Concerto

 

Tianwa Yang violin - Gabriel Schwabe cello  -

 

Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin

 

- conductor: Antony Wit

 

label Naxos

   
 

Sergei Prokofiev

 

Violin concertos Nos. 1 and 2, Sonata for solo violin

 

Tianwa Yang violin -

 

Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra

 

- conductor: Jun Märkl

   
 

Eugène Ysaÿe

  6 sonatas for solo violin
 

Tianwa Yang violin -

 

label Naxos

   
 

Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy

 

Violin concertos - Violin Sonata in F Minor opus 4 (1823)

 

Tianwa Yang violon - Descharmes Romain piano -

 

Sinfonia Finlandia Jyvaskyla

 

label Naxos

   

 

 

 
 
 

 
 

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