Name:

YANG FAN

Introduction:

Associate Professor of Viola at the South China University of China, School of Arts, Doctor of Musical Arts (University of Cincinnati). He performed in all professional orchestras of Hong Kong and Macau, Richmond Symphony Orchestra (IN), Topeka Symphony Orchestra (KS), and numerous opera and ballet productions. He also joined the Asian tour of André Rieu and his Johann Strauss Orchestra. His academic article “Reconsidering the Nineteenth-Century Potpourri: Johann Nepomuk Hummel’s Op. 94 for Viola and Orchestra” was published in the Italian eighteenth- and nineteenth-century instrumental music journal Ad Parnassum, issue No. 36.

YANG Fan taught at the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts junior music programme and Macau Youth Symphony Orchestra, and trained numerous youth symphony and string orchestras. He also worked as administrator for international music competitions and music camps, jury member for local music competitions, and music arranger.

Studied the violin and the viola with professor WANG Jia Yang since 6, YANG Fan was an outstanding graduate of Shen Zhen Arts School, and received First Class Honours at the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts, where he played a 1770 viola on loan from Hong Kong Jockey Club Charities Trust made by Lorenzo Storioni in Cremona. He also performed quartet concerts in Thailand and England representing the Academy, and performed Mozart’s Sinfonia Concertante, the viola concertos of Bartok, Walton, and Carl Stamitz with maestros Alexander Shelley, François-Xavier Roth, Alan Cumberland and WANG Jia Yang. His viola professors in the United States were Peter Chun-Hoon Chung, Catharine Carroll Lees, and Masao Kawasaki, and conducting professors were Aik Khai PUNG, Annunziata Tomaro, and Mark Gibson.