Ziyu He

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Ziyu He at the Eurovision Young Musicians 2014 competition

Ziyu He (* 1999 in Qingdao ) is an Austrian violinist of Chinese origin.

Life

Ziyu He started playing the violin at the age of five under the guidance of Prof. Xiangrong Zhang. Ziyu has lived in Salzburg since 2011 and studies violin with Professor Paul Roczek and viola with Professor Thomas Riebl at the Mozarteum University. He attended master classes with Ivry Gitlis, Ani Schnarch, Schmuel Ashkenasi, Vadim Gluzman, Chaim Taub and Petru Munteanu in Keshet Eilon and in Salzburg.

In June 2012 he won the Szymon Goldberg Award of the Meissen Music Academy as the youngest participant across all age groups. At the International Summer Academy Mozarteum Salzburg 2012 he was selected as a prize winner. In 2014 Ziyu took part in the Eurovision Young Musicians competition for Austria . At the finals in Cologne he played Béla Bartók's violin concerto number 2 and won the first prize. The following year he won the Mozart Competition in Zhuhai in his age group and the International Instrumental Competition in Markneukirchen . In February 2016 he won first prize and the prize for the best interpretation of the commissioned work at the International Mozart Competition in Salzburg and two months later first prize in the Senior Division and three special prizes at the Yehudi Menuhin Competition in London as well as second prize and one Special prize at the 9th Leopold Mozart International Violin Competition in Augsburg .

At a young age, his concert activities took him to London, Gstaad , Israel , France , Germany , Sweden and Italy . He made his orchestral debut in his hometown of Qingdao in November 2012 with the Qingdao Symphony Orchestra. In a concert with the Symphony Orchestra of the Mozarteum University under the direction of Hans Graf , Ziyu played the solo part in Prokofieff's G minor violin concerto in autumn 2014 .

Ziyu He plays the violin "Schneiderhan" (1715) by Antonio Stradivari , which was made available to him for one year by Beare's International Violin Society for winning the Menuhin Competition in 2016.

Further awards

  • 2013 3rd Prize and Special Prize "Sonata" at the International Violin Competition in Schöntal Monastery
  • 2013 3rd prize in the international LOUIS SPOHR competition for young violinists
  • 2015 1st prize in the middle category at the International Mozart Competition for Young Musicians in Zhuhai, China.
  • 2016 2nd prize violin and special prize "Kronberg Academy" in the Leopold Mozart Competition, Augsburg

literature

  • Program of Eurovision Young Musicians 2014, p. 49 (source)

Web links

Commons : Ziyu He  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Eurovision Broadcasting Union. Eurovision Young Musicians 2014: About Ziyu He ( Memento from December 19, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
  2. ^ The Menuhin Competition Trust. Menuhin Competition London 2016: Ziyu HE. ( Memento from May 12, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
  3. ↑ a b c Singapore Violin Festival: He Ziyu ( Memento from January 15, 2017 in the Internet Archive )
  4. ^ University of Mozarteum Salzburg. Press release: International Summer Academy of the Mozarteum University Salzburg, July 16 to August 25, 2012. PRESS RELEASE ( Memento from January 15, 2017 in the Internet Archive )
  5. ↑ 12th International Mozart Violin Competition . Retrieved February 12, 2016.
  6. ^ University of Mozarteum Salzburg. Mozarteum student Ziyu He also wins the international "Menuhin Competition". Facebook contribution from April 18, 2016. Mozarteum student Ziyu He also wins the international "Menuhin Competition" ( Memento from January 15, 2017 in the Internet Archive )
  7. ↑ Website of the Hohenlohe Cultural Foundation, The Prize Winners 2013 Special “colla parte” award for piano accompaniment ( memento from June 2, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
  8. ^ Website of the Liszt School of Music Weimar, online , accessed on June 1, 2014
  9. ↑ competition. (No longer available online.) In: International Violin Competition Leopold Mozart. Archived from the original on January 28, 2018 ; accessed on January 27, 2018 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.leopold-mozart-competition.de
personal data
SURNAME Ziyu He
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian violinist
DATE OF BIRTH 1999
PLACE OF BIRTH Qingdao