Yang ZHANG – China
Date of birth: November 13, 1990
Nationality: Chinese
Yang is studying with Lina Yu at the Shanghai Conservatory of Music. He has won 4th Prize at the International Violin Competition Kloster Schöntal/Germany (2005), 2nd Prize at the MMS Chamber Music Competition in Shanghai (2006) and 1st Prize at the International Violin Competition in Astana, Kazakhstan (2006). Yang has performed as a soloist in Germany, the US, Canada, Israel, Japan and Poland. While still in music middle grade school, he became concertmaster at the Shanghai MMS Symphony Orchestra.
1ST ROUND
J.S. BACH Solo Sonata No.3 in C major, BWV 1005, Largo and Allegro assai
W.A. MOZART Violin Concerto No.3 in G major, K.216, 2nd movement
O. BULL Polacca from Polacca Guerriera
B. SHENG The stream flows - II (1990)
Accompanist: Gunnar Flagstad
SEMI-FINALS
L. VAN BEETHOVEN Quartet Op.18, No.2 in G major, 1st movement
Contemporary Norwegian work for quick study
A. NORDHEIM Partita für Paul
L. WIENIAWSKI Variations on an Original Theme in A major, Op. 15
FINALS
A. DVORAK Violin Concerto in A minor, Op.53
