Yige Chen
China, 26
Yige Chen is a Master’s student at Beijing’s Central Conservatory of Music. He won First Prize at the 2022 Leonid Kogan International Competition and Grand Prize Virtuoso Bonn, was the winner of the 2023 China Golden Bell Award, and earned Second Prize at the 2024 Andrea Postacchini International Violin Competition. Chen has performed as soloist with leading orchestras including the China Philharmonic, Shanghai Symphony, and Guangzhou Symphony orchestras. He has participated in masterclasses with Maxim Vengerov, Midori, Zakhar Bron and Boris Kuschnir.
Teachers:
Xiao Liu 2012 – 2016
Shenghua Liu 2011 – 2012
Xinhua Yang 2005 – 2011
Preliminaries
Sonata No. 4 in E minor — E. Ysaÿe
Sonata in G major, K. 301 — W. A. Mozart
Sicilienne — M. T. von Paradis
No. 6 from Six Polyphonic Etudes:
Variations on The Last Rose of Summer — H.W. Ernst
Semi-Finals
Sonata No. 3 in D minor, Op. 108 — J. Brahms
Rhapsody No. 3 for Solo Violin — Jessie Montgomery
Sonata No. 4 in A minor, Op. 23 — L. van Beethoven
Caprice d’après l’Étude en forme de Valse, Op. 52 — C. Saint-Saëns/Ysaÿe
Classical Finals
Violin Concerto No. 5 in A major, K. 219 — W. A. Mozart
Tambourin chinois — F. Kreisler (orch. J. Kuusisto)
Finals
Violin Concerto No. 1 in D major, Op. 6 — N. Paganini
