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曾宇謙 Yu-Chien Tseng

2015年榮獲俄國柴可夫斯基國際小提琴大賽首獎的曾宇謙，在歷次國際大賽中，皆以優異的表現獲得獎項，其中包括2006年曼紐因國際小提琴比賽青少年組第三名、2009年西班牙薩拉沙泰國際小提琴比賽第一名及最佳演奏獎、2011年韓國尹伊桑國際小提琴比賽第一名及最佳詮釋獎、2012年比利時伊麗莎白國際小提琴比賽第五名及觀眾票選第一名，以及2015年新加坡首屆國際小提琴比賽第一名等。

5歲時啟蒙於林柏山老師，後跟隨沈英良老師、李宜錦老師、陳沁紅老師學習，2008年進入著名的美國寇蒂斯音樂院，師事Ida Kavafian、Aaron Rosand。曾與美國費城管弦樂團、德國慕尼黑愛樂、俄國馬林斯基管絃樂團、捷克愛樂、英國倫敦愛樂、西班牙納瓦拉交響樂團、比利時國家交響樂團、中國愛樂、新加坡交響樂團、香港小交響樂團、東京愛樂、臺灣愛樂等世界知名樂團合作演出，並經常受邀於世界各地出獨奏會及協奏曲音樂會。

首張專輯於2012年由比利時Fuga Libera唱片公司錄製及發行；2014年由CHIMEI發行第二張專輯《薩拉沙泰名曲集》，並榮獲臺灣第26屆傳藝金曲獎最佳詮釋獎；2016年與環球國際唱片簽約，以Deutsche Grammophon品牌發行個人第三張專輯《Reverie夢幻樂章》，再次榮獲傳藝金曲獎最佳詮釋獎；2018年發行協奏曲專輯，與俄國鋼琴兼指揮大師普雷特及俄國國家交響樂團合作錄音。

The exceptional violinist Yu-Chien Tseng has already set more than his share of records in his young life, triumphing in International Competitions as the youngest participant over and over again.  After winning Third Prize in the junior division of the Menuhin Competition at the age of just eleven, he went on to win First Prize of the Sarasate Competition and take the special prize for the best performances of Sarasate’s works as the youngest competitor at age fifteen in 2009. In 2011 he won the First Prize in the Isang Yun International Violin Competition in Korea, taking the prize for the best interpretation prize of works by Isang Yun. In 2012 Mr. Tseng was the Fifth Laureate and won the Audience Prize at the Queen Elisabeth Competition in Belgium. In 2015 he took the first prize in the inaugural Singapore international competition. Most recently, he won the top prize (Silver medal) in the 15th International Tchaikovsky Competition in Russia.

Born in Taipei, Taiwan, Mr. Tseng began to play the violin at age five.  By the age of six, he had already performed with the Taipei Symphony Orchestra.  In his native Taiwan, he studied with Po-Shan Lin, Ying-Liang Shen, I-Ching Li and Professor C. Nanette Chen.  At the age of thirteen, he gained admittance to the renowned Curtis Institute, where he studied with Professor Ida Kavafian and now with Professor Aaron Rosand.

Yu-Chien is already developing a promising career as a soloist. He has played with orchestras including the Philadelphia Orchestra, Mariinsky Theatre Symphony Orchestra, Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra, the National Symphony Orchestra of Belgium, the National Symphony Orchestra of Taiwan, the Orquesta Sinfónica de Navarra, and the Orchestre Royal de Chambre de Wallonie, and among others. He has also performed in recital extensively in the US, Europe and Asia, to consistently high acclaim. In the future, he will perform with Shanghai Symphony Orchestra, London Philharmonic Orchestra, Czech Philharmonic Orchestra, Singapore Symphony Orchestra, Hong Kong Sinfonietta, Osaka Symphony Orchestera etc. His first recording, a disc of all French music, was released internationally. The second recording was all Sarasate pieces and the third recording will be recorded in 2016.