Taiwanese pianist Yang Tsao began his piano studies at the age of five and has won numerous competitions, including the First Prize of Yamaha International Piano Competition, in Taipei, Taiwan; the First Prize of Taipei Piano Competition, in Taipei, Taiwan; and he was the finalist of Ambache Women Composer Prize and Berly Chempin Beethoven Prize in Birmingham Conservatoire. Yang Tsao was selected as ‘2017 Young Music Star of New Taipei City’ in Taiwan and 2018 Music Star of Bach Foundation.

 

As a soloist, Yang has performed throughout Asia, Europe, and the United Kingdom and continues to hold recitals around the world. He has also regularly participated at master classes given by pianists such as Dr. Daniel Pollack, Evelyn Chen, Vitali Berzon, Professor William Heiles, An Ning, David Fung, Ya-Fei Chuang, Ching-Yun Hu, Colin Stone, Ian Jones, Jakob Fichert and Yejin Gel, Mikhail Kazakevich, Peter Donohoe, Müza Rubackyte, Robert Levin and Tamás Vásáry.

 

Yang gave his first public performance at the age of six. In 2008, he made his mind to apply the music college in Taiwan, and he got the fourth prize among all applicants. He studied with Prof. Lin-Ju Ou in Taipei Municipal University of Education (renamed to University of Taipei in 2013).

 

Yang continued his studies at the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire in the United Kingdom with scholarship pursuing master degree in piano performance and studied with professor David Quigley and professor Julian Jacobson, graduating with Distinction.

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As a result of winning the Joseph Weingarten Scholarship, Yang continues his studies at the Franz Liszt Academy, Budapest, with Balázs Szokolay and László Borbély in September, 2016.