Pianist Wei-Yi Yang has received worldwide acclaim for his captivating performances and imaginative programming. Winner of the gold medal at the San Antonio International [now ‘The Gurwitz’] Piano Competition, he has performed at Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, and across America, Asia, Europe, and Australia. His debut at Carnegie Hall’s Stern Auditorium as the soloist in Messiaen’s Turangalîla-Symphonie was hailed by The New York Times as “sensational.”

In demand as a dedicated educator, Wei-Yi Yang has performed and taught in Scotland, Ireland, Austria, Germany, Italy, Spain, The Netherlands, Thailand, Hong Kong, Taiwan, China, South Korea, Mexico, Serbia, and Montenegro, among other countries around the world. Most recently, his master class teaching has taken him to Northwestern, Vanderbilt, and Drake Universities, Manhattan School of Music and New England Conservatory, Conservatorio Superior de Música de las Islas Baleares in Spain, Conservatorio di Musica Luigi Boccherini in Italy, Tsinghua University and China Conservatory, among many other esteemed institutions on four continents.

A dynamic musician with a diverse repertoire, Mr. Yang is a frequent guest artist at festivals in Lucca, Italy; Mallorca, Spain; Novi Sad, Serbia; Monterrey, Mexico; Konstanz, Germany; Kotor, Montenegro; Bergen, Holland; and La Jolla and Napa, California; as well as a regular residency at the Norfolk Chamber Music Festival. He enjoys frequent collaboration with such beloved ensembles as the Imani Winds, the Brentano, Miró, Dover, Pacifica, and Tokyo string quartets. Mr. Yang’s performances have been featured on NPR, PBS, RAI (Radiotelevisione Italiana), ARTE (Association Relative à la Télévision Européenne), the ABC (Australian Broadcasting Company), and on recordings for Genuin (Leipzig), Hyperion (London), Naxos (Hong Kong), Albany Records, Renegade Classics, and the Holland-America Music Society labels.

Mr. Yang has been steadfast in his interests and efforts in advocating interdisciplinary projects; these include confluence of music with poetry/theatre in collaboration with the illustrious English actress Miriam Margolyes, lecture-recitals on the intersection of Czech music and literature, and multimedia performances of Granados’ monumental piano suite Goyescas under the influence of Goya’s visual art. A keen advocate for the performance and education of newer music, Mr. Yang has worked with several notable composers, including Martin Bresnick, George Crumb, and Ezra Laderman, to prepare their works for premiere and recording.

Born in Taiwan of Chinese and Japanese heritage, Mr. Yang studied first in the United Kingdom and then in America with renowned Russian pianists Arkady Aronov at the Manhattan School of Music and Boris Berman at Yale. Mr. Yang has also worked with eminent pianists Claude Frank, Peter Frankl, Vera Gornostaeva, Byron Janis, Lilian Kallir, and Murray Perahia. In 2004, he received his doctorate from Yale University, where he joined the School of Music’s faculty in 2005 as Professor of Piano.

Recordings
Genuin (Leipzig), Hyperion (London), Naxos (Hong Kong), Albany Records, Renegade Classics, Holland-America Music Society.