About

B.M. and M.M., The Juilliard School
D.M.A., Stony Brook University

Triple-prized winner of the 2013 Lionel Tertis Competition, including Yuri Bashmet’s President Of The Jury Prize, Taiwanese-born Canadian Chieh-Fan Yiu has established himself as one of the most exciting young violists on the international stage today. His engagements as a soloist have included Aspen Festival Orchestra, Art Symphony Orchestra of New York, Vancouver Academy of Music Symphony, Vancouver Metropolitan Orchestra, Stony Brook Symphony, and UBC Chamber Orchestra.

As a recipient of the coveted Jerome L. Greene Fellowship, Mr. Yiu completed his Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees from The Juilliard School, and is a doctoral candidate in Stony Brook University, having been under the tutelage of mentors like Toby Appel, Heidi Castleman, Hsin-Yun Huang, Kim Kashkashian, as well as the great Emerson Quartet.

Artist-in-residence in New Asia Chamber Music Society as well as PhiloSonia concert series, Mr. Yiu's chamber music has taken him around the world in festivals such as Sounds of Lyons, Music@Menlo, Moritzburg, Verbier, Aspen, and Sarasota Music Festivals. Mr. Yiu is also a founding member of the Ben Feng Music Festival in Taiwan, a chamber music series currently in its third season that has been recently hailed as “a classical music gem” by Liberty Times. He has collaborated with such esteemed artists as Thomas Bergen, Colin Carr, David Cohen, Nicholas Cords, Pedro R. Díaz, Alan Kay, Tessa Lark, Frank Morelli, Alfredo Muro, Paul Neubauer, Sasha Sitkovetsky, Josu De Solaun, Carol Wincenc, as well as the Volta Piano Trio and the Emerson Quartet, in venues including Alice Tully, Avery Fisher/David Geffen, and Carnegie Hall.

Media coverage of Mr. Yiu’s performances and interviews include Music@Menlo Live, medici.tv’s broadcast from Switzerland, and BBC News in the UK. Mr. Yiu’s live recording of Nataliya Medvedovskaya’s Fantasy for Viola and Piano can be heard on WQXR Radio and ArkivMusic.

Music

SOLO:

J.S. Bach | CELLO SUITE NO. 1 IN G MAJOR, BWV 1007

J.S. Bach | CELLO SUITE NO. 2 IN D MINOR, BWV 1008

J.S. Bach | CELLO SUITE NO. 3 IN C MAJOR, BWV 1009

J.S. Bach | CELLO SUITE NO. 4 IN E-FLAT MAJOR, BWV 1010

J.S. Bach | CELLO SUITE NO. 5 IN C MINOR, BWV 1011

J.S. Bach | CELLO SUITE NO. 6 IN D MAJOR, BWV 1012

J.S. Bach | CHROMATIC FANTASY

J.S. Bach | VIOLA DA GAMBA SONATA NO. 2 IN D MAJOR, BWV 1028

J.S. Bach | VIOLA DA GAMBA SONATA NO. 3 IN G MINOR, BWV 1029

J.S. Bach | VIOLIN SONATA NO. 1 IN G MINOR, BWV 1001

J.S. Bach | VIOLIN PARTITA NO. 2 IN D MINOR, BWV 1004

Béla Bartók | VIOLA CONCERTO, Sz. 120, BB 128

Ernest Bloch | MEDITATION AND PROCESSIONAL

Ernest Bloch | SUITE FOR VIOLA AND PIANO 1919

Ernest Bloch | SUITE HEBRAIQUE

Johannes Brahms | OP. 120 NO. 1

Johannes Brahms | OP. 120 NO. 2

Rebecca Clarke | VIOLA SONATA

Sir Peter Maxwell Davies | SIX SORANO VARIANTS

Sir Edward Elgar | SALUT D'AMOUR, OP. 12

Sir Gerald Finzi | FIVE BAGATELLES FOR CLARINET (VIOLA) AND PIANO

Paul Hindemith | DER SCHWANENDREHER

Paul Hindemith | OP. 11 NO. 4

Paul Hindemith | OP. 25 NO. 1

Paul Hindemith | TRAUERMUSIK

Johan Nepomuk Hummel | POTPOURRI ("FANTASY") OP. 94 FOR VIOLA AND ORCHESTRA

Zoltán Kodály | ADAGIO

Nicolò Paganini | "LA CAMPANELLA" FOR VIOLA AND PIANO

Krzysztof Penderecki | CADENZA FOR SOLO VIOLA

Ástor Piazzolla | HISTOIRE DU TANGO (ARR. FOR VIOLA AND GUITAR)

Sergei Rachmaninoff | VOCALISE

Max Reger | SUITE NO. 1 IN G MINOR

Alessandro Rollo | VIOLA CONCERTO IN E-FLAT, OP. 3

Nikolai Roslavets | VIOLA SONATA NO. 1, 1926

Miklós Rózsa | VIOLA CONCERTO , OP. 37

Franz Schubert | ARPEGGIONE SONATA, D. 821

Dmitri Shostakovich | SONATA FOR VIOLA AND PIANO, OP. 147

Carl Philip Stamitz | VIOLA CONCERTO

Igor Stravinsky | ELEGIE FOR SOLO VIOLA

Georg Philipp Telemann | VIOLA CONCERTO IN G MAJOR

Henri Vieuxtemps | CAPRICCIO, OP. 55

Henri Vieuxtemps | VIOLA SONATA, OP 36

Tomaso Antonio Vitali | CHACONNE IN G MINOR FOR VIOLA AND PIANO

Sir William Walton | VIOLA CONCERTO

Sir Ralph Vaughan Williams | ROMANCE

CHAMBER:

J.S. Bach | 15 INVENTIONS, BWV 772-786, arr. violin/viola

Samuel Barber | STRING QUARTET IN B MINOR, OP. 11

Ludwig Van Beethoven | "EYEGLASSES" DUO FOR VIOLA AND CELLO, WoO 32

Ludwig Van Beethoven | SEXTET FOR HORNS AND STRING QUARTET, OP. 81B

Ludwig Van Beethoven | STRING TRIO OP. 9, NO. 1 G MAJOR

Ludwig Van Beethoven | STRING TRIO OP. 9, NO. 3 C MINOR

Ludwig Van Beethoven | STRING QUARTET NO. 4 IN C MIOR, OP. 18, NO. 4

Ludwig Van Beethoven | STRING QUARTET NO. 7 IN F MAJOR, OP. 59, NO. 3

Ludwig Van Beethoven | STRING QUARTET NO. 8 IN C MAJOR, OP. 59, NO. 2

Ludwig Van Beethoven | STRING QUARTET NO. 9 IN C MAJOR, OP. 59, NO. 3

Ludwig Van Beethoven | STRING QUARTET NO. 13 IN B-FLAT MAJOR, OP. 130

Ludwig Van Beethoven | STRING QUARTET NO. 14 IN C-SHARP MINOR, OP. 131

Johannes Brahms | CLARINET QUINTET, OP. 115

Johannes Brahms | PIANO QUARTET NO. 1 IN G MINOR, OP. 25

Johannes Brahms | PIANO QUARTET NO. 3 IN C MINOR, OP. 60

Johannes Brahms | PIANO QUINTET IN F MINOR, OP. 34

Johannes Brahms | STRING QUARTET NO. 1 IN C MINOR, OP. 51

Johannes Brahms | STRING QUARTET NO. 2 IN A MINOR, OP. 51

Johannes Brahms | STRING QUINTET NO. 1 IN F MAJOR, OP. 88

Johannes Brahms | STRING QUINTET NO. 2 IN G MAJOR, OP. 111

Johannes Brahms | STRING SEXTET NO. 1 IN B-FLAT MAJOR, OP. 18

Johannes Brahms | STRING SEXTET NO. 2 IN G MAJOR, OP. 36

Claude Debussy | SONATA FOR FLLUTE, VIOLA AND HARP, L.137

Claude Debussy | STRING QUARTET IN G MINOR, OP. 10

Ernő Dohnányi | SERENADE FOR STRING TRIO, OP. 10

Antonín Dvořák | STRING QUARTET IN F MAJOR, OP. 96 "AMERICAN"

Antonín Dvořák | STRING QUINTET IN E-FLAT MAJOR, OP. 97

Sir Edward Elgar | PIANO QUINTET IN A MINOR, OP. 84

Gabriel Fauré | PIANO QUARTET NO. 2, OP. 45

Edvard Grieg | TWO ELEGICAL PIECES, OP. 34 (ARR. VOICE/STRING QUARTET)

Handel-Harlvorsen | PASSACAGLIA FOR VIOLIN AND VIOLA

Joseph Haydn | STRING QUARTET OP. 51 "THE SEVEN LAST WORDS OF CHRIST"

Joseph Haydn | STRING QUARTET OP. 64 NO. 5 "LARK"

Joseph Haydn | STRING QUARTET OP. 76 NO. 3 "KAISER"

Joseph Haydn | STRING QUARTET OP. 76 NO. 4 "SUNRISE"

Joseph Haydn | STRING QUARTET op. 76 NO. 5

Johan Kvandal | QUINTET FOR HARDING FIDDLE AND STRING QUARTET, OP. 50

Felix Mendelssohn | STRING OCTET OP. 20

Felix Mendelssohn | STRING QUARTET NO. 2 IN A MINOR, OP. 13

Felix Mendelssohn | STRING QUINTET NO. 2 IN A MINOR, OP. 87

Ottokar NováčeK | PERPETUUM MOBILE FOR VIOLIN AND ORCHESTRA

Maurice Ravel | STRING QUARTET IN F MAJOR

Maurice Ravel | INTRODUCTION AND ALLEGRO FOR HARP, FLUTE, CLARINET, AND STRING QUARTET

Saint-Saëns | LE CARNAVAL DES ANIMAUX

Franz Schubert | PIANO QUINTET IN A MAJOR, D.667

Franz Schubert | STRING QUARTET NO. 13, D.804 "ROSAMUNDE QUARTET"

Franz Schubert | STRING QUARTET NO. 14, D.810 "DEATH AND THE MAIDEN"

Franz Schubert | STRING QUINTET IN C MAJOR OP.163, D.956

Robert Schumann | PIANO QUARTET IN E-FLAT MAJOR, OP. 47

Robert Schumann | PIANO QUINTET IN E-FLAT MAJOR, OP. 44

Arnold Schoenberg | VERKLÄRTE NACHT, OP. 4

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky | STRING QUARTET NO. 1

Richard Wagner | SIEGFRIED IDYLL, WWV 103

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