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Tianwa Yang (b1987)


Tianwa Yang was born in 1987 in Beijing. She started studying the violin at the age of four. She progressed quickly with her winning six out of the seven violin competitions she entered. In 1997, at the tender age of ten, she was accepted by Professor Lin Yaoji at the Central Conseveratory of Music. By the age of eleven, she had already received many invitations for solo recitals, as well as for concerts with orchestras. Media in Hong Kong described her as “A Pride Of China”. In 1999, after hearing her perform at the 1999 Beijing Music Festival, Isaac Stern praised her talent and invited her to study with him in the USA. In 2000, she became the youngest artist ever worldwide to record the 24 Caprices of Paganini, when she recorded them at the age of 13.

Her European debut was in 2001 in Prague, where she played the Mendelssohn Violin Concerto with the Czech Broadcasting Symphony Orchestra. In 2003, she played Prokofiev’s Violin Concerto No. 2 in the Munich National Theater with the orchestra of the Bavarian State Opera (Bayerische Staatsoper). Recitals in Paris, Stockholm, Frankfurt and Vienna quickly followed.

In 2003, Tianwa Yang was awarded a special two-year scholarship by the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) to study chamber music in Germany. She currently works with Professor Joerg-Wolfgang Jahn in Karlsruhe.

In 2004, Tianwa Yang received the Volkswagen Foundation prize  "Star of Tomorrow"  from Seiji Ozawa.

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