TIANWA YANG

Winner of the prestigious OPUS KLASSIK “Instrumentalist of the Year” in 2022 and ECHO KLASSIK “Instrumentalist of the Year” in 2015, the Best Up-and-Coming Artist 2014 and the Annual Prize of the German Record Critics 2014 for her Naxos recordings, Tianwa Yang is referred to as “an unquestioned master of the violin” by American Record Guide. She performs with such major orchestras as the Detroit, Seattle, Baltimore, Sydney, WDR-Cologne, MDR-Leipzig, HR Radio Frankfurt, Singapore and New Zealand Symphonies and the London, BBC, Dresden, Helsinki, Warsaw, Hong Kong and Malaysia Philharmonics. International recital engagements take her to festivals such as Lucerne, Rheingau Music, Mozartfest Würzburg, Heidelberger Frühling, Ravinia, Virginia Arts; and to London’s Wigmore Hall, Paris’ Salle Pleyel, New York’s Lincoln Center, Berlin Philharmonic Hall and Leipzig’s Gewandhaus.

She is a critically acclaimed recording artist for Naxos, her most recent releases include Prokofiev’s Violin Concertos with ORF Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra and Jun Märkl, Brahms’ Violin Concerto and Double Concerto with DSO Berlin, Antoni Wit and cellist Gabriel Schwabe; and two highly acclaimed volumes of the Complete Music for Violin and Orchestra by Wolfgang Rihm. Considered the world’s best interpreter of the music of Sarasate since Heifetz, her complete music for Violin and Orchestra and for Violin and Piano by Sarasate are now released as two complete box sets by Naxos.

Raised in Bejing, Tianwa Yang began studying violin at the age of four. Demonstrating unquestionable ability, she won six competitions as a young child. At the age of ten she was accepted to study at the Central Conservatory of Music in Beijing as a student of Lin Yaoji. Within one year, Hong Kong media described the young artist as “A Pride of China”. Tianwa Yang recorded the 24 Paganini Caprices at the age of thirteen, making her the youngest artist to release the works. In 2003 she was awarded a scholarship by the German Academic Exchange Service to study chamber music in Germany, marking the beginning of her European career.

Tianwa Yang is Professor of Violin at the University of Music Wuerzburg, Germany. She is grateful to Lin Yaoji, Jörg-Wolfgang Jahn and Anner Bylsma for the musical insight and support they have offered throughout her career.