Wei-Yi Yang, pianist

A pianist from Taiwan, Wei-Yi Yang has concertized on four continents as a soloist with orchestras and in recitals.  Winner of the Gold medal in the Fifth San Antonio International Piano Competition in Texas, Mr. Yang's performances have been featured on the Australian Broadcasting Corporation in Sydney Australia, NPR, Minnesota Public Radio, WCNY-New York, WFMT-Illinois as part of the "Live From Studio One" concert series, and KLRN public television in Texas.  He has also garnered top prizes and awards in the Manhattan Concerto Competition, New York’s FiveTown Arts Foundation Competition, the San Jose International Piano Competition, and the Long Island Young Artist Competition.  A graduate of the Manhattan School of Music, where he studied with Russian pianist Arkady Aronov, Mr. Yang also worked with renowned artists such as Murray Perahia, Vera Gornostaeva, Jerome Lowenthal, Byron Janis, and the late Hans Graf.  Under the guidance of Boris Berman, as well as tutelage from Claude Frank and Peter Frankl, Mr. Yang was awarded a doctorate in musical arts by Yale University in 2004.

An active recitalist and chamber musician, Mr. Yang has performed in Carnegie Hall, Steinway Hall, Merkin Hall, Lincoln Center’s Alice Tully Hall, the Kennedy Center in Washington D.C., the Powell Symphony Hall in St. Louis, Missouri, the Royal Scottish Academy of Music in Glasgow, Scotland, the Great Hall in Leeds, England, and the Royal Dublin Society in Dublin, Ireland, among many other major concert venues around the world.  Having performed at festivals in Novi Sad (Serbia and Montenegro), Monterrey (Mexico), Napa Valley and La Jolla (California), just to name a few, Mr. Yang has collaborated with members of some of the world’s finest orchestras such as London Symphony, New York Philharmonic, Singapore Symphony, San Francisco Opera, Minnesota Orchestra, Pittsburgh Symphony, Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra, Orquestra do Estado de Sao Paulo, and members of Lincoln Center Chamber Music Society II.  A founding member of the award-winning Soyulla Ensemble, Mr. Yang performs regularly with the ensemble on Twin Cities’ chamber music series in Minnesota.

Mr. Yang’s upcoming performances include debut concerts during seasons 2005 and 2006 in South Korea, People’s Republic of China and Hong Kong.  Since 2002, Mr. Yang chaired the keyboard department at Syracuse University's Setnor School of Music, where he was awarded tenure in May 2005.  Mr. Yang joins the faculty at Yale University as Associate Professor of Piano in Fall of 2005. 

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