Yang Liu - violinist
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Liu Yang has already established himself as the most important Chinese violinist of his generation.  A former first-prize winner of China's National Violin Competition, he was a Starling scholarship student of Dorothy DeLay and Kurt Sassmannshaus at the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music.  Mr. Liu was born in Qingdao, People's Republic of China in 1976.  At age nine he was accepted into the Central Conservatory of Music in Beijing as a student of the renowned Professor Yao-Ji Lin.  At age ten he received an invitation to play Sarasate's Zigeunerweisen vvith the NHK Orchestra in Tokyo.  Mr. Liu performed Tchaikovsky's Violin Concerto in a nationally televised live Concerto with the Central Philharmonic Orchestra in Beijing, and has performed as soloist with the Shanghai Philharmonic and the Orchester der Nationen in Germany.  His Concerto tours have led him to Hong Kong, Taiwan, Germany, Switzerland, Austria, France, Poland, Russia, Greece, and Egypt.   Yang has also appeared frequentIy as soloist with the Starling Chamber Orchestra, most recentIy during the SCO's two tours to his homeland, China.  Yang Liu's debut recording Song of Nostalgia was released this year - to critical acclaim.  The disc represents the soloist's broad interests, including both traditional Chinese songs and some of the most difficult repertoire ever written for the violin.  Yang's long-standing collaboration with Chinese composer and pianist Gao Ping continues on this disc which features a new work by the composer.

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