Special 400th free Lunchtime Concert – Yuanfan Yang (piano)

Special 400th free Lunchtime Concert – Yuanfan Yang (piano)

It is with immense pleasure that we present a return visit from this outstanding young pianist – ten years after his first concert for us when he was just ten years old himself.  In the meantime he has given concerts in Warrington for Friends of Walton Hall Music including the first ever total standing ovation for his rendition of Grieg’s Piano Concerto. He will be playing:-

CHOPIN: Berceuse in D flat

SCHUBERT/LISZT: Litanei

YUANFAN YANG: Ode to the Atlantic

BRAHMS: Handel Variations

 

Yuanfan

Yuanfan has won numerous piano competitions. He has won 1st Prize at the Cleveland International Young Artists Piano Competition in the USA in 2015, and 1st Prize of the 4th International Franz Liszt Piano Competition in Weimar, Germany in 2014.  He has also won 1st Prizes in the UK Liszt Society International Piano Prize 2015, the Royal Academy of Music’s Sterndale Bennett Prize 2015, and the 9th Grand Prix Interlaken Classics International Piano Competition 2016. He was the Keyboard Category Winner and a Grand Finalist of the BBC Young Musician of the Year Competition 2012.

Yuanfan has performed for many eminent music societies, festivals and key events throughout Britain, China, Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, Romania, Spain, Switzerland and the US, and has performed concertos by Beethoven, Chopin, Gershwin, Grieg, Mozart, Prokofiev, Rachmaninoff and Tchaikovsky with many eminent conductors and leading orchestras including the Northern Sinfonia, the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, the Romanian Radio National Symphony Orchestra, the Wuhan Philharmonic Orchestra, the Canton Symphony Orchestra in Cleveland, the Minnesota Orchestra, and the Manchester Camerata.