Yang Ding

Admired as an exciting performer, pianist Yang Ding, a native of China, is a prize winner in major piano competitions. He won the top prizes in the 11th Los Angeles Liszt International Piano Competition, the 54th Cincinnati World Piano Competition, as well as the Bradshaw & Buono International Piano Competition. In addition, he is a prizewinner of New York Five Towns Young Musician Competition, the Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music Concerto Competition, Kansas City Musical Club competition, the Isabel Scionti Piano Scholarship Competition. Recently, Ding won 2nd place at 19th Jacob Flier International Piano Competition. As a solo performer, Ding has performed throughout the U.S., Korea and China. The venues have included Carnegie Hall Weill Recital Hall, Hewlett Woodmere Public Library, NY, Thayer Hall in Los Angeles, Le Petit Trianon Theatre in San Jose, CA, Crighton Theatre at Conroe, Voertman Hall, Denton, Texas, Cincinnati Arts Museum, Werner Hall and Corbetter Auditorium in Cincinnati, OH, Benaroya Hall in Seattle, WA, Grant Hall and White Recital Hall in Kansas City, MO, Seoul Arts Center, Korea, Tsuen Wan Town Hall in Hong Kong, Beijing, Shanghai, Xi’ An, Tianjin, Shenyang, Haerbin, and Xiamen in China. Because of his achievement on piano, Ding was awarded Honorary Citizenship of Flower Mound by Tom Hayden, Mayor of Flower Mound, TX in 2013. His oncoming solo recitals in 2015 are in Germany, Italy, Portugal, Costa Rico, Beijing, Tianjin, and Nanjing in China. Now Ding is a doctor student at the University Of North Texas College Of Music, with a teaching fellow award and a special GATS Award from the Toulouse Graduate School. Major teachers include Pamela Mia Paul, Robert Weirich, Eugene Pridonoff, Rosemary Platt and Yuanji Fan.