TIANYOU MA

Tianyou has been a top prize winner in numerous international competitions, including the Menuhin Violin Competition in 2018 (where he was also the recipient of the Bach Prize), the Postacchini Competition in 2015, the Eisteddfod string competition in 2010, and the International Summer Academy of the MDW string competition in 2018.

His music playing has been broadcasted on the online Strad magazine, BBC 3 radio, and OE1 radio in Vienna. Tianyou has performed as soloist with orchestras including the Webern Kammerphilharmonie, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Doctors' Orchestra, Yehudi Menuhin School Orchestra, Stuttgart Chamber Orchestra, and Adelaide Youth Orchestra in Australia. He has performed as soloist in many countries in Europe, Asia, the USA, and Oceana. Tianyou has been invited to attend the Verbier Festival Academy in the summer of 2021.

Tianyou started his undergraduate study with a full tuition scholarship at the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia in August of 2019, studying with Pamela Frank and Shmuel Ashkenasi.

PROGRAMME

FIRST ROUND

SESSION 1

J.S. BACH: Sonata No. 3 in C major, BWV 1005
E. YSAŸE: Sonata No. 6, Op. 27

SESSION 2

F. SCHUBERT: Sonata in A major, D. 574
F. KREISLER: Recitativo and Scherzo, Op. 6
N. MILSTEIN: Paganiniana for Violin Solo

SEMI-FINALS

R. STRAUSS: Sonata in E-flat major, Op. 18
KOH CHENG JIN: Before Daybreak
H.W. ERNST: Etude No. 6 in G Major, “Die letze rose”

FINALS

W.A. MOZART: Piano Quartet No. 2 in E-flat major, K. 493

GRAND FINAL

J. SIBELIUS: Violin Concerto in D minor, Op. 47