Tang Yun was born in Shanghai. She began violin lessons at the age of 5 and since two years later studied with Prof. Yu Lina, the renowned violinist and pedagogue. She entered the Primary School and the Middle School of Shanghai Conservatory of Music respectively in 2001 and 2004, and is now a sophomore student at the conservatory.Tang is a frequent prize winner.

 

 

In 2007 she won the First Prize of Jeunesses International Violin Competition, Bucharest (age 14-18 group). In 2009 she won the Fifth Prize in the National Youth Violin Competition.

 

In 2011 she won the Bronze Prize in the 8th National Golden Bell Music Competition, the most prestigious music competition in China.Tang has been a frequent member of music festivals. She has attended IMA Festival (Japan) Morningside Music Bridge (Canada), Bowdoin Music Festival (USA), Shanghai International Violin Masterclass (China), among others. She has performed in masterclasses of Midori, Milan Vitek, Donald Weilerstein, Lewis Kaplan and David Ehrlich and was unanimously praised.

 

Hailed by Olin Chism of the Fort Worth Star-Telegram as “a highly musical person, a master not only of technique but of interpretation” and Lyn Bronson of Peninsula Reviews as having “a masterful technical control that permitted him to go way beyond technical challenges and reveal the essential beauty and significance of each work he performed”, pianist NING ZHOU has been a laureate in several distinguished international piano competitions.

 

 

A native of China, now residing in Texas, he has competed in the 2013 Van Cliburn Piano Competition in Fort Worth, the 2015 Chopin Competition in Warsaw, and was a semi-finalist in the 2015 Queen Elisabeth Piano Competition in Brussels, in addition to victories in several competitions while living in China.

 

Ning holds Master’s degrees from the Shanghai Conservatory and the San Francisco Conservatory as well as an Artist Certificate in Chamber Music, while studying with Mack McCray and Sharon Mann, also at the San Francisco Conservatory.

 

1. M.Ravel: Sonata No.2 in for Violin and Piano, M 77

Allegretto

Blues. Moderato

Perpetuum mobile. Allegro

2. Sibelius: Nocturne Op 51 No 3

3. Tchaikovsky: Melodie in E-flat major (from Souvenir d’un lieu cher) Op 42

4. C.Debussy: Children's Corner, L 113: VI. Golliwogg's Cake-walk (arr. by J. Heifetz）

5. C.Saint-Saëns: Introduction and Rondo capriccioso

6. G.F.Handel Halvorsen: Passacaglia