Ge Yang

Ge Yang is currently the Liuqin / Xiaoruan Principal with the Hong Kong Chinese Orchestra. She joined the HKCO in 2004. She began learning the liuqin at the age of five and joined the Flying Dragon Youth Chinese Orchestra of Shenyang City in 1993 as a soloist.

In 2000, she was admitted to the Traditional Music Department of the Central Conservatory of Music to receive advanced training in liuqin and zhongruan. During the ten years of training, she has benefited from the teaching and coaching of Wang Huiran, Wang Hongyi, TianMoubin, Zhang Xinhua, Xu Yang, Lin Jiliang et al, and was the recipient of the People’s Scholarship (Grade A and Grade B) for ten consecutive years. She was also awarded the Fu Chengxian Memorial Scholarship and the Sumner M. Redstone Scholarship.

Ge was the recipient of two Outstanding Awards at the 1998 and 2000 Dragon’s Cup Traditional Instrumental Music Experience-sharing Contests. In 2000, she was sent by the Ministry of Culture of China to participate in the Osaka International Music Festival and received critical acclaim. She went to Hong Kong to give a performance in the same year. In 2004, she was admitted to the Central Conservatory of Music to study for a double Master’s degree in liuqin and zhongruan.

Ge has performed solo in many orchestral concerts, and has premiered Listening to the Wild Geese, a double concerto for Tang-style xiaoruan and guqin, and Singing under the Moon, a double concerto for liuqin and zhudi. She gave a highly successful solo recital, Picturesque Landscape in Chinese Music, in 2016. She premiered the liuqin concerto, Chi Bi, in Taiwan in 2018.

As a performing artist, Ge has assimilated the various distinguished styles of China’s stylistic schools and blended tradition with modernity to come into her own. She has appeared in many media interviews and won critical acclaim, including television, radio, newspaper and magazines. A critic has this to say of her: “Her performance style is soulful, impassioned but never gets out of control. Her virtuosity is remarkable…”

Source: Hong Kong Chinese Orchestra