Triple
prize winner of the 2013 Lionel Tertis Competition, including Yuri Bashmet’s
President Of The Jury Prize, Taiwanese-born Canadian Chieh-Fan Yiu has established himself as one of the most exciting
young violists on the international stage today. As a soloist, he has performed
with the Aspen Festival, Art Symphony, Vancouver Metropolitan,
and Stony Brook Symphony Orchestra.
Winner of Stony Brook University Concerto Competition, Aspen
Music Festival Concerto Competition, and University of British Columbia
Concerto Competition, he has also won top prizes from the Hellam Young Artist
Competition, Lima Symphony Competition, as well as receiving the Best Viola
Performance Award in Kingsville International Competition.
Chieh-Fan’s
performances has led him to festivals such as Music@Menlo, Moritzburg, Verbier,
Aspen, and Sarasota Music Festivals, in venues like Alice Tully, Avery Fisher,
and Carnegie Hall.
A passionate chamber musician, Mr. Yiu has collaborated with such
esteemed artists as Colin Carr, Nicholas Cords, Lawrence Dutton, Tessa Lark, and
Philip Setzer. Media coverage includes performances with Verbier Festival
Orchestra on Medeci.tv, interviews/performances on WLIO-NBC Lima, Talentvision
and Fairchild Television in Vancouver, Music@Menlo Live, and BBC News in the UK. Mr. Yiu holds his bachelor’s and
master’s degrees from The Juilliard School, where he studied with Toby Appel,
Heidi Castleman, and Hsin-Yun Huang. He is now pursuing his doctorate degree in
Stony Brook University under the tutelage of Nicholas Cords and Lawrence
Dutton.
Throughout his career, Mr. Yiu is grateful to have been
under the influence of such an array of artists. He has performed in
masterclasses for Misha Amory, Yuri Bashmet, James Dunham, Gilad Karni, Kim
Kashkashian, Daniel Phillips, Maxim Rysanov, Jutta Puchhammer-Sédillot, Steve
Tenenbaum, Lars-Anders Tomter, Geraldine Walther, and Barbara Westphal, chamber
music coachings with Nancy Allen, Theodore Arm, Jane Coop, Glenn Dicterow,
David Dolan, Pamela Frank, Gilbert Kalish, Laurence Lesser, Teng Li, Jerome
Lowenthal, Curtis Macomber, Nicholas Mann, Gábor Takács-Nagy, Paul Neubauer,
Matti Raekallio, Rena Sharon, Rohan De Silva, Jan Vogler, Eric Wilson, Jasper
Wood, and Emerson and Pacifica Quartets, and private studies with Toby Appel,
Heidi Castleman, Nicholas Cords, Karen Dreyfus, Lawrence Dutton, David Harding,
Hsin-Yun Huang, Masao Kawasaki, and Robert Vernon.
Having completing his full-scholarship
studies at The Juilliard School, Mr. Yiu is now pursuing his doctoral degree in
Stony Brook University
under the tutelage of Nicholas Cords and Lawrence Dutton
.
As an orchestral musician, Mr. Yiu has performed under
the baton of conductors such as Roberto Abbado, Vladimir Ashkenazy, David
Atherton, James Conlon, Alan Gilbert, James Levine, Andrew Litton, Nicholas
McGegan, Alondra de la Parra, Andre Previn, Joseph Silverstein, Leonard
Slatkin, Michael Tilson Thomas, and David Zinman. He has performed in Carnegie
Hall with the Milal Ensemble, Olympus Chamber Symphony, and the Juilliard Symphony
Orchestra, and held principal viola positions in Stony Brook Symphony
Orchestra, Moritzburg Festival Orchestra, Sarasota Music Festival Orchestra,
UBC Symphony Orchestra, and Art Symphony Orchestra.
Mr. Yiu’s performances has led him to venues such as Chan
Center, Orpheum Theatre, and Michael J. Fox Theatre in Vancouver; Menlo-Atherton,
Stent Hall, and Martin Hall in Menlo Park, California; Salle Médran, Salle
Vallésia, and Église in Verbier, Switzerland; Sondershausen's Palace Garden,
Bad Elster's King Albert Theatre, and Dresden's Volkswagen Die Gläserne
Maufaktur in Germany; Cherry Orchard and Erin Arts Center in Isle of Man, UK; Paul
Hall, Morse Hall, Alice Tully Hall, and Avery Fisher Hall in Lincoln Center;
and Weill Recital Hall, Zankel Hall, and Stern Auditorium in Carnegie Hall.
Mr. Yiu’s continued involvement with education outreach
programs has led him to lecture and perform in New York Public Library's
Morrisania Branch, perform in BC Children's Hospital in Canada, Selby Public Library
in Florida, the Discovery Program for children in Verbier Festival, the Family
Concert (with story-telling/music segments) in Dresden's Volkswagen Die
Gläserne Maufaktur with the Moritzburg Festival, and mentorship with selected
young performers in Music@Menlo’s Young Performers Program.