Angelo Yu, violin, has appeared with the San Francisco, Pittsburgh, Detroit, Toronto, Vancouver, Houston, Colorado, North Carolina, San Antonio, Puerto Rico, and Charlotte symphonies, as well as the Rochester and Calgary Philharmonic. Internationally, he has appeared with the New Zealand Symphony, Shanghai Philharmonic, Auckland Philharmonia, Norwegian Radio Symphony, Munich Chamber Orchestra, and Oslo Philharmonic. As recitalist and chamber musician, he has performed at the Konzerthaus Berlin, the Louvre, National Centre for the Performing Arts in Beijing, Victoria Theater in Singapore, Shanghai Symphony Hall, Oslo Opera House, Auckland Town Hall, Alice Tully Hall, and Jordan Hall and Symphony Hall in Boston. Mr. Yu has performed at the Ravinia Festival, Grant Park, Music@Menlo, Chamber Music Northwest, Bridgehampton Music Festival, Aspen Music Festival, Verbier Festival, and Bergen Festival and last year opened the Sarasota Music Festival playing the three Brahms sonatas with pianist Jeffrey Kahane. In 2017 he became a member of the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center’s Bowers Program (formerly CMS Two). Last year he was recipient of an Avery Fisher Career Grant and a Lincoln Center Emerging Artist Award. He took First Prize in the 2010 Yehudi Menuhin International Violin Competition. He earned his Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees at the New England Conservatory, where he served as Donald Weilerstein’s teaching assistant. He performs on the 1715 “Joachim” Stradivarius.
