Critically acclaimed violinist Tianwa Yang has twice been the winner of the prestigious Opus Klassik Instrumentalist of the Year Award (Violin) – in 2022 for Prokofiev’s Violin Concertos Nos. 1 and 2 (Naxos 8.574107), and in 2015 for Ysaÿe’s Six Sonatas for Solo Violin, Op. 27 (Naxos 8.572995). In 2014 she received the Best Up-and-Coming Artist Award and the annual prize of the German Record Critics’ Award Association for her recording of Mendelssohn’s Violin Concertos (Naxos 8.572662) and her multiple volumes of Sarasate’s complete works for violin.
She has performed worldwide with major orchestras including the Seattle, Detroit, Baltimore, Malmö, Singapore, New Zealand, WDR Cologne, MDR Leipzig and Frankfurt Radio symphonies, in addition to the Gürzenich Orchester Köln and Bayerisches Staatsorchester, and the London, Helsinki and Hong Kong philharmonics.
Her constantly expanding discography for Naxos includes Brahms’ Violin Concerto / Double Concerto (8.573772), Wolfgang Rihm’s Music for Violin and Orchestra (Vol. 1: 8.573812, Vol. 2: 8.573667) and Complete Works for Violin and Piano (8.572730), Lalo’s Symphonie espagnole alongside Manén’s Concierto español (8.573067), Piazzolla’s Las cuatro estaciones porteñas (8.572271) and Vivaldi/Piazzolla’s Acht Jahreszeiten (‘Eight Seasons’) (8.551228), performed with her own ensemble.
She performs on a Guarneri del Gesù violin (1730) on kind loan from the Rin Collection in Singapore.
