Angelo Xiang Yu

Violinist / Soloist

Violinist Angelo Xiang Yu, recipient of both a 2019 Avery Fisher Career Grant and a 2019 Lincoln Center Emerging Artist Award, as well as First Prize in the 2010 Yehudi Menuhin International Violin Competition, has won consistent critical acclaim and enthusiastic audience response worldwide for his astonishing technique and exceptional musical maturity. In the summer of 2020, he became the newest member of the Shanghai Quartet. He has been a faculty member of the New England Conservatory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and the John J. Cali School of Music at Montclair State University. In the fall of 2020, he became a resident faculty member at the Tianjin Juilliard School.Mr. Yu currently performs on the 1715 “Joachim” Stradivarius violin, generously on loan from the Nippon Music Foundation.