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Artist Scoop Prize-winner at the Twelfth International Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow in 2002 and First-Prize winner of the China National Violin Competition, Yang Liu has already established himself as one of the most important Chinese violinists of his generation. Born in Qingdao on the mainland, he entered the Beijing Central Conservatory of Music at the age of nine to study under Professor Yao-Ji Lin. At the age of ten he made his concert debut with the NHK Orchestra in Tokyo. He then moved to the USA where he became a pupil of Dorothy Delay and Kurt Sussmenshaus at the Cincinnati Conservatory of Music. Yang Liu has performed as soloist with the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra, the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, the Shanghai Symphony Orchestra, the China National Symphony Orchestra and the Wisconsin Chamber Orchestra among others. He has also performed in Taiwan, Germany, Switzerland, Austria, France, Poland, Greece and Egypt. He currently serves as a professor of violin at the College of Performing Arts at Roosevelt University in Chicago. Don't miss Yang Liu's debut performance in Hong Kong in the CCOHK's upcoming Yang Liu & the Lady Tennant Stradivarius concert! |