Yin Chengzong

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In this Chinese name, the family name is Yin.

Yin Chengzong (

Gulangyu Island, Xiamen, Fujian) is a Chinese pianist and composer.[1]

Biography

Born on the "Piano Island" of

People's Republic of China. Although trained as a classical pianist, he is perhaps best known to the West through the Yellow River Piano Concerto he arranged based on the Yellow River Cantata
and performed in many Western theaters since the 1980s.

Yin started learning the piano in 1948 when he was seven years old, and gave his first recital at the age of nine. At twelve, he joined the preparatory school of Shanghai Conservatory of Music. In 1959, Yin won an award at the World Youth Peace and Friendship Festival in Vienna, Austria, and in 1960, he was sent to the Leningrad Conservatory to study. In 1962, he and American pianist Susan Starr were the second-prize winners of the International Tchaikovsky Competition (Vladimir Ashkenazy shared the first-prize with British pianist John Odgon). In 1965, Yin joined the Central Symphony Orchestra of China as a soloist.

Cultural Revolution

In 1973, during the

like whom?] who were longing to have access to Western music[citation needed]. Another creation attributed to Yin is the now well-known Yellow River Piano Concerto. Yin and other members of a special committee arranged this work in 1969 based on the Yellow River Cantata by Xian Xinghai. In the final movement of the concerto, Yin incorporated the melody The East Is Red. The instruments used, the piano and the orchestra, were all Western, but the music was heavily influenced by Chinese folk melodies.[citation needed
]

United States

In 1983, following difficulties with the new post-Mao Chinese Communist Party due to his alleged closeness to the

CBS Sunday Morning. Formerly a professor and artist-in-residence at the Cleveland Institute of Music, Mr. Yin now lives in New York City.[citation needed
]

Yin has released more than 20 albums, including an all-Chopin CD, a recording of Debussy's Preludes, and the Yellow River Concerto.[citation needed]

References

  1. ^ Page, Tim (20 October 1985). "Yin Cheng-Zong review". The New York Times. Retrieved 5 August 2011.
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