Warm Prompt:
Children under the age of six or 1.2 meters will not be admitted. Each audience should have a ticket (ID card is also needed) regardless of the age.
 

 

Diyang Mei
As a violist resident in Germany, Diyang Mei holds the position of principal viola of the Munich Philharmonic Orchestra and the judge of the Brahms International Viola Competition in Austria. Ever since Diyang Mei’s brilliant success at the 2018 ARD International Music Competition, winning First Place in the viola category, the Audience Prize and several special prizes, he has been steadily furthering his international career. He is also the recipient of the Borleti-Buitoni Awards and the Osnabrücker Musikpreis.
 
Diyang Mei, born in Hunan in 1994, studied violin at the age of 5 and then started to learn viola at the age of 10. He successively studied with Huiping Liu, Professer Shaowu Wang (Central Conservatory of Music), Professor Hariolf Schlichtig (University of Music and Performing Arts in Munich) and violist Nobuko Imai. Since the fall of 2019, Diyang Mei has held the position of principal viola of the Munich Philharmonic Orchestra. The same year, he entered the Kronberg Academy, receiving the guidance from Barenboim, Sir Simon Rattle, Eschenbach and many other maestros. He plays a Giovanni Pistucci 1890 provide by the Florian Leonhard Fine Violins in England and an Anasaldo Poggi 1963 supported by the Yu Art Foundation in China.
 
Diyang Mei was awarded first prizes at 67^th ARD International Music Competition Viola Competition, the 52^nd International Instrumental Competition for Viola in Markneukirchen, the International Max Rostal Music Competition for Viola in Berlin, the 40^th International Viola Society Young Artists Competition in the U.S., the 19^th International Johannes Brahms Viola Competition in Austria, etc. As a soloist, Diyang Mei has performed with renowned orchestras such as the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, the SWR Symphony Orchestra Stuttgart, the Konzerthausorchester Berlin, the Scottish Chamber Orchestra, China National Symphony Orchestra, among others. In addition, he has been invited to the Mecklenburg-Vorpommern Festival, the Mozartfest in Würzburg, the Schwarzwald Music Festival, and other music festivals.
 
“Mei produced a reading of Bartok’s Viola Concerto at the 2018 ARD Competition that was clear-sighted, outgoing and thoroughly enjoyable. As he had shown in the commissioned piece, he is an imaginative interpreter. In his hands the opening theme wandered like a lost soul, full of desolate, keen-edged beauty; elsewhere he delved into the darker, aggressively rhythmic passages with thrilling tenacity. The central Adagio religioso was as sweetly yearning as one could desire and, by the end of the piece, the listener had the impression of a player who might just have that intangible quality of an influential voice, perhaps even a new advocate for the viola”, praised by world well known classical magazine The Strad.
 

Piano: Yameng Huang
Yameng Huang, pianist, serves as a professor at the Central Conservatory of Music. She successively studied piano with Junsong Ye, Professor Jianqin Fan, Professor Yiming Pan and Professor Qifang Li. In 1995, she entered the Central Conservatory of Music and continued her postgraduate studies. Dedicated to the piano education of teenagers, she has become a faculty member and been teaching at the conservatory until now.
 
At the age of 18, Yameng Huang won Second Place at the 37^th Maria Canals International Youth Piano Competition in Spain in 1991. In 1997, she performed with French renowned violin mater Gerald Poulet in the sonata concert in Beijing. In 1998, she appeared in the Forbidden City Music Festival in Beijing with internationally well-known musicians, playing Messiaen’s “Quatuor pour la fin du Temps” to critical acclaim.
 
Due to the influence of Professor Qifang Li, who had studied in Poland in her early years, Yameng shows a considerable artistry in the interpretation of Chopin’s works. At the invitation of the Chopin Association in Poland, Yameng Huang participated in the 3^rd Chopin International Music Festival in Warsaw, Poland, giving recitals at the Ostrogske and Zelazowa Wola. Also, she has held special concerts of Chopin’s works many times domestically.
 
From 2003 to 2006, as the scholarship recipient of the DAAD, Yameng went to Hochschule für Musik Hanns Eisler Berlin and studied with Professor Klaus Baessler.
She is a consummate pianist in the field of German and Austrian works. With the profound research on the works’ cultural background and the unique interpretation of techniques, Yameng’s performance shows a clear style of classicism and romanticism.
 
Since her schooldays, Yameng has been actively involved in the performance exchanges and the academic research activities of Chinese piano music and the world’s music scene. She received guidance successively from maestros such as Ashkenazy and Badula Skoda. During the period at the Central Conservatory of Music, she represented China’s young pianists to join the 1^st Martha Argerich International Music Festival in Japan. As a chamber music player, Yameng has collaborated with such musicians as Siqing Lv, Chuanyun Li, Wei Lu, Jian Wang, Donald Mclnnes, Gerald Poulet, among others. Also, she has held master classes domestically and abroad, including at the Torrelodones International Piano Festival, the Opusfest International Music Festival, the Alberta University in Canada, the National Center for the Performing Arts (Beijing), Shenzhen Grand Theater, etc.
 
Her album “Beethoven’s Diabelli Variations” was released on NIGHTBERRY Media Art Nightfrog. In 2016, Yameng Huang gave solo concerts in Kaisersaal, Beijing, Xiamen, Taiyuan and other places. In june 2017, she performed with the legendary violinist Ivry Gitlis at the Central Conservatory of Music to critical acclaim. In 2017, she was invited to join the New Cosmos Music Festival in Vienne and successfully held a recital. In October 2017, at the invitation of Boston University and Liszt Association in the U.S, Yameng held a recital with a great success in Boston and New York. In 2018, Yameng gave concerts commemorating the 100^th anniversary of Debussy together with her outstanding students at Beijing Concert Hall and the National Center for the Performing Arts. In July 2018, she was invited to hold master classes in the music festivals in Bulgaria and Switzerland; in August, she sat on the jury of the Schubert International Piano Competition held in Vienna, Austria. Respectively in 2019 and 2020, she served as the guest professor at the Stradivarius Music Festival in Switzerland and the president of the jury in the Tomorrow International Classical Music Competition Piano Category.

 
Program
Bach: Violin Partita No.2 in d minor, BWV 1004, “Chaconne”
Schubert: Arpeggione Sonata in a minor, D.821
Knox: Quartet for One
Prokofiev: Romeo and Juliet, Op.64 (Arr. for Viola and Piano by V. Borisovsky)
 
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