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Yang Liu

Yang Liu, prize winner at the 12th International Tchaikovsky Violin Competition in Moscow, was born in Quingdao, People’s Republic of China, in 1975.  At 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 with the NHK Orchestra in Tokyo. He was a first-prize winner of China’s National Violin Competition, and was a Starling scholarship student at the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music.    Liu performed Tchaikovsky’s Violin Concerto in a nationally-televised, live concert with the Central Philharmonic Orchestra in Beijing, and has performed as soloist with the Shanghai Philharmonic and the Orchester der Nationen in Germany.

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Yang Liu 6/15/05: Yang Liu

Violinist Yang Liu, who can be heard on his debut recording, Song of Nostalgia, has been presented the Lady Tennant Strad and this concert marks the violin's return to the concert stage.

Yang Liu

Violinist Yang Liu, who can be heard on his debut recording, Song of Nostalgia, has been presented the Lady Tennant Strad and this concert marks the violin's return to the concert stage.

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