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Yuuki Wong, Violin

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Yuuki Wong, Violin

Biography

Quoted by The Strad as an artist ‘with imagination and insight….a crowd-pleaser’, Yuuki Wong began his musical studies at the age of four with the piano and two years later, started playing the violin. After just three years of violin lessons, Yuuki was admitted to the world renowned Yehudi Menuhin School in England, where he studied with Rosemary Furniss and Natasha Boyarsky alongside lessons with Yehudi Menuhin. He was the youngest student at the age of 15 to be admitted to the class of Amita and Roland Vamos at the Oberlin Conservatory, USA to begin his Bachelor of Music degree. Since 2000, Yuuki has been studying at the Konservatorium Wien under Prof. Boris Kuschnir. Besides regular lessons, Yuuki has participated in lessons and masterclasses with personalities such as Tibor Varga, Aaron Rosand, Zakhar Bron, Frans Helmerson, Dmitri Sitkovetsky, Viktor Tretyakov, Zvi Zeitlin, Pierre Amoyal, Julian Rachlin, Mauricio Fuks, Pamela Frank, Gabor Takacs-Nagy, Yakov Kreizberg, Miriam Fried, to mention a few.

Honours bestowed upon Yuuki include 1st Prize at the 2007 Summit Music Festival Competition in New York, 2nd Prize and Special Prize at the 2007 Michael Hill International Violin Competition in New Zealand, Special Prize and 4th Place at the 2005 Jean Sibelius International Violin Competition in Helsinki, 3rd Prize at the 2004 Abbado International Violin Competition in Milan, the Grand Prix at the 2000 Kingsville International Competition, where he also swept the 1st Prize in the Senior Strings and Best Violinist Prize. While at Oberlin Conservatory, he was a recipient of the Dean’s Talent Award, which recognizes exceptional talent at the institution. At the Konservatorium Wien, he has won the Fidelio Competition in 2005.

Recital, concerto and chamber music performances have taken Yuuki to the U.S.A, U.K., Scandinavia, Continental Europe, South America, New Zealand, Asia and the Indian subcontinent. Not only is the geographical scope diverse, other highlights include performances for the President of Singapore, for HRH Queen Elizabeth II at Buckingham Palace, and with orchestras such as the Helsinki Philharmonic, Finnish Radio Symphony, Auckland Philharmonia, Singapore Symphony, Vienna Mozart Ensemble, Corpus Christi Symphony, Bruno Walter Festival Orchestra.


Performances by Yuuki Wong

Composer Title Date Action
Antonin Dvořák Piano Quartet in E-Flat Major, Op. 87 09/05/2011 Play Add to playlist
Maurice Ravel String Quartet in F Major 08/27/2011 Play Add to playlist
Johannes Brahms Sonata No. 1 for Violin and Piano, Op. 78 in G Major 09/08/2011 Play Add to playlist
Arnold Schoenberg Verklärte Nacht 10/21/2011 Play Add to playlist
Robert Schumann String Quartet No.1 in a minor, Op. 41, No. 1 10/19/2011 Play Add to playlist

Yuuki Wong Concerts

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