Angelo Xiang Yu 于翔, Violinist
Winner
of the prestigious Yehudi Menuhin International Violin Competition in
2010, violinist Angelo Xiang Yu is regarded as one of today’s most
talented and creative young violinists. His astonishing technique and
exceptional musical talent have won him consistent critical acclaim and
enthusiastic audience response worldwide for his solo recitals,
orchestral engagements and chamber music performances.
In addition to winning First Prize as well as the Bach and Audience
Prizes at the Menuhin Competition, Mr. Yu was awarded 3rd prize at the
Michael Hill International Violin Competition in 2011 and was the
youngest prize winner ever at the Wieniawski International Violin
Competition in 2006.
Angelo Xiang Yu’s recent and upcoming orchestral engagements include
appearances with the Pittsburgh and Houston symphonies, as well as with
the Calgary Philharmonic, Norwegian Broadcasting Orchestra, Shanghai
Symphony Orchestra, Auckland Philharmonia, Munich Chamber Orchestra and
Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra.
An active recitalist and chamber musician, Mr. Yu has appeared in
recital in Berlin, Paris, Beijing, Singapore, Shanghai, Auckland,
Chicago, Pittsburgh and Boston. He has participated as a chamber
musician in several of the world’s leading summer music festivals
including the Verbier Festival in Switzerland, Bergen Festival in Norway
and Chicago’s Ravinia Festival, and attended the Kronberg Academy in
Germany and the Perlman Music Program in New York. During the 12/13
season, Mr. Yu was invited to tour with Miriam Fried and chamber
musicians from the Ravinia Festival’s Steans Institute and performed
concerts in New York, Chicago, Florida and throughout New England. He
was also recently featured as the Artist in Residence on American Public
Media’s nationally broadcast radio program Performance Today.
Born in Inner Mongolia, Angelo Xiang Yu moved to Shanghai at the age of
11 and received his early training from violinist Qing Zheng at the
Shanghai Conservatory. He is currently studying at the New England
Conservatory of Music in Boston, where he is the recipient of the Irene
M. Stare Presidential Scholarship in Violin and a student of Donald
Weilerstein and Kim Kashkashian. After earning his Bachelor’s degree in
2012, Mr. Yu was one of two instrumentalists invited to be a candidate
for NEC’s prestigious Artist Diploma, which he was awarded in May 2014.
He is working towards a Masters Degree beginning in the fall of 2014.
Mr. Yu is currently under CM Artist Management, New York. http://www.cmartists.com/artists/angelo-xiang-yu.htm
(2014)
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