Liu Yang

Yang Liu is a Chinese-American violinist. He has toured in North America, South America and Asia with multiple orchestras. Liu also often travels with his wife Olivia in concert tours across the United States and Asia. He is an advocate of cultural exchange via classical music, and is a founder of the Yang and Olivia Foundation and Momento Virtuosi, a chamber ensemble featuring diverse ethnicity and instrumentation.

Liu studied in Central Conservatory with Professor Yaoji Lin in Beijing and College-Conservatory of Music in Cincinnati with professor Kurt Sassmannshaus and Dorothy Delay. Liu became an American citizen in 2014.

Liu was the winner of China's 5th National Violin Competition and a prize winner of the Twelfth International Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow.

Liu was featured in a documentary called String of heart--Yang Liu, highlighting Yang's artistic life. This production was aired on CCTV (China Central Television) throughout China, together with his autobiographical book Performing in Love, which was published in the spring of 2014.

Liu lives in Chicago with his wife Olivia and two boys. He has performed and taught at the Great Wall Music Academy, the Aspen Music Festival, the Ravinia Festival, the Chicago classical music radio WFMT, SESC international music festival of Brazil, and gives master classes in major universities and music conservatories such as the VanderCook College of Music.