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Tiffany Yeung

source: Stuart Lowe

Vita

Named one of CBC Music’s “30 hot Canadian classical musicians under 30,” Tiffany Yeung was the winner of the $25,000 Canada Council for the Arts Michael Measures Prize and a laureate of the Canada Council Musical Instrument Bank Competition. She made her debut with the Toronto Symphony Orchestra in Roy Thomson Hall at the age of 13 and toured as a soloist with the National Youth Orchestra of Canada and conductor Sascha Goetzel in their 2023 cross Canada tour which was recorded for broadcast on CBC radio.

Tiffany won 2nd prize at the 2024 Eckhardt-Gramatté competition, the Shean Strings Competition, and was the recipient of the commissioned work prize at the 2023 OSM Competition. She was also the winner of the Remember Enescu International Violin Competition and the Vancouver International Music Competition. She has performed with renowned musicians including James Ehnes, Blake Pouliot, and the Kelemen and Kronos quartets.

Tiffany is currently pursuing her bachelor’s degree under Min-Jeong Koh and Erika Raum at the Glenn Gould School, after beginning her studies at the New England Conservatory with Miriam Fried as a Dean’s Scholar. She performs on the 1869 Jean Baptiste Vuillaume violin with Vuillaume model bow, on loan by the Canada Council for the Arts Musical Instrument Bank.

Repertoire

First Round

  • C. Debussy: Sonata G minor L 140
    • 1. Allegro vivo (5')
  • J. S. Bach: Sonata No. 2 A minor BWV 1003
    • 2. Fuga (4')
  • N. Paganini: Caprices for solo violin op. 1, No. 1 (2')
  • W. A. Mozart: Violin Concerto No. 4 KV 218
    • 1. Allegro (9')

 

Second Round

  • E. Ysaÿe: Violin Sonata op. 27 No. 4 in E minor (11')
    • 1. Allemanda
    • 2. Sarabanda
    • 3. Finale
  • P. R. Flys: Sonata for solo Violin (6')
    • 1. Lento capriccioso - Vivo
    • 2. Largo - Allegretto
  • W. Lutoslawski: Partita (18')
    • 1. Allegro giusto
    • 2. Ad libitum
    • 3. Largo
    • 4. Ad libitum
    • 5. Presto
  • P. d. Sarasate: Carmen Concert Fantasy op. 25 (13')
    • 1. Introduction. Allegro moderato
    • 2. Moderato
    • 3. Lento assai
    • 4. Allegro moderato
    • 5. Moderato

 

Piano: UdK accompanist

 

Finale

  • S. Prokofjew: Violin Concerto No. 1 in D major (21')
    • 1. Andantino
    • 2. Scherzo: Vivacissimo
    • 3. Moderato – Allegro moderato