Tony Yike Yang | |
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| 杨艺可 | |
 Yang in 2021 | |
| Born | December 7, 1998 Chongqing, China |
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| Occupation | Musician |
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| Genres | Classical |
| Instrument(s) | Piano |
| Website | tonyyikeyang |
Tony Yike Yang (born December 7, 1998) is a Canadian-Chinese pianist.
Yang was born in Chongqing, China to Chinese parents. He and his parents immigrated to Toronto, Canada in 2004. He began piano studies at the age of five with his mother who was his first teacher. Later on, he studied at the Juilliard Pre-College with Julian Martin as a full-scholarship student, and The Phil and Eli Taylor Performance Academy of The Royal Conservatory of Music with James Anagnoson. [1]
Yang is a graduate of Harvard University where he obtained a Bachelor of Arts in Economics. He is currently an Artist-in-Residence at the Ingesund Piano Center in Sweden [2] under the guidance of Julia Mustonen-Dahlkvist. His present and past musical advisors have included renowned musical figures such as Gabriela Montero, Eliso Virsaladze, Stephen Hough, Martha Argerich, Dang Thai Son, Mari Kodama and James Anagnoson. [3]
As a soloist, Yang has collaborated with orchestras such as the Cleveland Orchestra, Warsaw Philharmonic, Orchestre Métropolitain, Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra and the Edmonton Symphony Orchestra among others. [4] He has also appeared at venues such as Carnegie Hall in New York, Koerner Hall in Toronto, Severance Hall in Cleveland, Warsaw National Philharmonic, Great Hall of the Moscow Conservatory, Athenaeum in Bucharest, Tokyo Metropolitan Theatre, Seoul Arts Center, National Arts Centre in Ottawa, The Esplanade in Singapore and the Guangzhou Opera House. [5]
In 2015, Yang won the Fifth Prize at the 17th XVII International Chopin Piano Competition in Warsaw, becoming the youngest-ever laureate in the history of the competition at sixteen years old. [6] Previously, he was the winner of the Thomas & Evon Cooper International Competition in 2014 [7] [8] and the Bösendorfer & Yamaha USASU International Junior Piano Competition in 2013. He has also received top prizes at many other competitions such as the Hilton Head International Piano Competition, the Gina Bachauer International Junior Piano Competition, and the Van Cliburn International Piano Competition. [9]
In 2018, Yang was appointed Youth Cultural Ambassador for the City of Guangzhou and accepted a one-year position as an artistic tutor for the Sun Yat-Sen University. Two years later, he began a three-year tenure as Music Consultant to the Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen. [10]
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| Chopin: Sonata B-Moll / Ballada F-Moll / Mazurki |
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