Ya-Chun Yang
Yang is the concertmaster of the Taipei Symphony Orchestra and winner of the 32nd and 33rd CHIMEI Arts Award. Born in Taiwan in 1996, began learning her violin at the age of 4. She graduated from the Department of Music of Taipei National University of the Arts and New England Conservatory. Formerly a student of Pi-Yueh Wang, Hsin-Yi Ho, Ray-Chou Chang, Shih-Kai Lin, Nancy Tsung, and Ayano Ninomiya. She won multiple distinctions from competitions as a student, including the Taipei National University of the Arts Guandu Concerto Competition and champion of Shu-Te Sylvia Lee Violin Competition.
For the first time at the age of 16, she took on the role of soloist to perform Brahms Violin Concerto with student orchestra. Worked with the Taipei National University of the Arts Department of Music’s orchestra and conductor Fusao Kajima to perform Saint-Saëns introduction and rondo capriccioso.
With support from the Ministry of Education’s Higher Education SPROUT Project at the end of 2018, she worked with the strings chamber orchestra of Taipei National University of the Arts and conductor Cheng-Tu Su to perform Mozart Violin Concerto No. 3 as well as made her debut in Hong Kong.
As a soloist, she worked with conductor Michael Chang and Taipei Symphony Orchestra in 2019. It was her first time performing with TSO. Appointed on multiple occasions as the concertmaster of International Youth Orchestra of National Taiwan Symphony Orchestra. She was also Invited to participate in Taipei Music Academy & festival and Taiwan Connection.
