Yuanwei is an RCM studentship holder, working towards his PhD degree in the Royal College of Music. In 2017 Yuanwei obtained his Master of Performance degree from the Royal College of Music and the Artist Diploma in Piano Performance in the following year, under the guidance of Norma Fisher and Ashley Wass. Yuanwei is a Leverhulme Arts Scholar and was supported by Ms Jean Cater and Professor Gordon Marshall during his Artist Diploma study at the Royal College of Music. In 2019 Yuanwei obtained his Master of Arts in Musicology degree from the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire.
Programme First Half
Ferruccio Busoni (1866-1924)
Orgelchoralvorspiele von Johann Sebastian Bach, No. 7a Durch Adams Fall ist ganz verderbt, BWV 637
Orgelchoralvorspiele von Johann Sebastian Bach, No. 3 Nun comm der Heiden Heiland, BWV 659
Orgelchoralvorspiele von Johann Sebastian Bach, No. 5 Ich ruf zu dir Herr Jesus Christus, BWV 639
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685 – 1750) arr. Alan Weiss
Prelude & Fugue in D minor, BWV 539
Franz Liszt (1811 – 1886)
Variationen über das Motiv von Bach, S.180
Interval with complimentary tea an biscuits
Programme Second Half
Alexis Weissenberg (1929-2012)
Etude No. 5 'Le regret' (1961)
Slow Fugue (1979)
Harlem Blues (1948)
Charles Trenet (1913-2001) arr. Alexis Weissenberg
Coin de Rue
Avril Paris
Boum!
Biography:
Yuanwei is an RCM studentship holder, working towards his doctoral degree at the Royal College of Music. His musicological research is centered on the piano compositions of Alexis Weissenberg and aims to explore and discuss the issues regarding the cultural-historical and stylistic interpretation of Weissenberg’s musical works. Yuanwei’s supervisory team is directed by Professor Robert Adlington.
Yuanwei started on the undergraduate programme at the Hogeschool voor de Kunsten Utrecht in the Netherlands studying with Alan Weiss, receiving maximum honours in his final exam in 2015. As a pianist, Yuanwei has given concerts in The Netherlands, Belgium, Spain, UK, USA, and China. Following an audition in 2012 at the Utrecht Conservatory, Yuanwei played for Maestro Arcadi Volodos who praised him as ‘a very fine young pianist’ after the masterclass.
When he was younger, Yuanwei studied the Suo’Na (a Chinese folk instrument) and jazz percussion with his father. In recent years Yuanwei has also enjoyed a career as a freelance photographer.
