--- id: 0d987162-8a88-4d2a-9056-d85d92eeb516 title: 'Yu-Chien Tseng: Taiwanese Classical Violinist' abstract: Yu-Chien Tseng is a prominent Taiwanese classical violinist born in 1994. He gained international recognition by winning the fifth laureate prize at the 2012 Queen Elisabeth Music Competition and the second prize at the 2015 International Tchaikovsky Competition. Educated at the Curtis Institute of Music, he has recorded for labels such as Fuga Libera and the Chimei Museum. classification: primary: 78.02:787.8 secondary: - '78.02' - '787.8' - '03' udc_main_class: '7' tags: - Yu-Chien Tseng - violinist - classical music - Taiwan - music competition - Curtis Institute of Music topics: - Music - Biography - Classical Arts author: '' created_at: '2026-06-01T00:24:44.072128' updated_at: '2026-06-01T02:15:40.779590' sources: - type: url uri: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yu-Chien_Tseng format: url_fetch udc_label: Music in connection with Music version: '1' --- ## Card: Yu-Chien Tseng: Taiwanese Classical Violinist Yu-Chien Tseng is a prominent Taiwanese classical violinist born in 1994. He gained international recognition by winning the fifth laureate prize at the 2012 Queen Elisabeth Music Competition and the second prize at the 2015 International Tchaikovsky Competition. Educated at the Curtis Institute of Music, he has recorded for labels such as Fuga Libera and the Chimei Museum. ## Classification Primary: 78.02:787.8 | Secondary: 78.02, 787.8, 03 | Tags: Yu-Chien Tseng, violinist, classical music, Taiwan, music competition, Curtis Institute of Music | Topics: Music, Biography, Classical Arts ## Content Yu-Chien Tseng - Wikipedia Jump to content Main menu Main menu move to sidebar hide Navigation Main page Contents Current events Random article About Wikipedia Contact us Contribute Help Learn to edit Community portal Recent changes Upload file Special pages Search Search Appearance Donate Create account Log in Personal tools Donate Create account Log in Contents move to sidebar hide (Top) 1 Life and career 2 Awards 3 Recordings 4 References 5 External links Toggle the table of contents Yu-Chien Tseng 5 languages مصرى Español 日本語 Polski 中文 Edit links Article Talk English Read Edit View history Tools Tools move to sidebar hide Actions Read Edit View history General What links here Related changes Upload file Permanent link Page information Cite this page Get shortened URL Print/export Download as PDF Printable version In other projects Wikimedia Commons Wikidata item Appearance move to sidebar hide From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Taiwanese violinist In this Chinese name , the family name is Tseng ( Chinese : 曾 ) . Yu-Chien Tseng 曾宇謙 Yu-Chien Tseng photographed in 2020. Born ( 1994-08-24 ) August 24, 1994 (age 31) Taipei County , Taiwan Other name Benny Education Curtis Institute of Music Occupation Classical violinist Years active 2005 - present Website yuchientseng .com Yu-Chien (Benny) Tseng ( Chinese : 曾宇謙 ; pinyin : Zēng Yǔqiān ; Wade–Giles : Tsêng Yü-ch'ien ; born August 24, 1994) is a Taiwanese violinist . In 2012 he was fifth laureate in the Queen Elisabeth Music Competition , where he also won both the Musiq'3 and the Klara - Canvas prizes awarded by the public. [ 1 ] In the 15th International Tchaikovsky Competition held in 2015, Tseng won the 2nd prize in the violin contest, in which no first prize was awarded. [ 2 ] Tseng has recorded for Fuga Libera and the Chimei Museum . Life and career [ edit ] Yu-Chien Tseng was born in Taipei County (now New Taipei City ). In pre-school, Tseng's parents worried that he was tone deaf. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] His father enrolled him in percussion classes after hearing tests showed Tseng's hearing to be normal. He started to study the violin at the age of 5. By the age of 6, 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 C. Nanette Chen. Since 2008 he has studied at the Curtis Institute of Music , under professors Ida Kavafian and Aaron Rosand . In 2009 he won the 10th Pablo Sarasate International Competition in Pamplona (Spain). In 2011 he won the Isang Yun Competition in Tongyeong (South Korea) and also was awarded a special prize at the XIV International Tchaikovsky Competition (as best of those in Round II who did not make the finals). In 2012 he took fifth place in the Queen Elisabeth Competition in Brussels. He has performed with the Philadelphia Orchestra , the National Orchestra of Belgium , and the symphony orchestras of Singapore, Taipei, and Navarra among others. He has given solo concerts in cities in the US, Europe and Asia. In 2017, Tseng was featured in the opening ceremony of the 2017 Summer Universiade in Taipei, Taiwan with a solo violin performance. [ 5 ] Awards [ edit ] 2006: Third Prize in Yehudi Menuhin International Competition for Young Violinists Junior division [ 6 ] 2009: First Prize and Prize to Best Interpreter of Works by Sarasate in 10th Pablo Sarasate International Competition in Pamplona (Spain) [ 7 ] 2010: Associazione Amici di Paganini Prize and Prize in memory of Dr. Enrico Costa in the 53rd Paganini Competition [ 8 ] [ 9 ] 2011: Jury Discretionary Award in The XIV International Tchaikovsky Competition [ 10 ] 2011: First Prize and Isang Yun Special Prize in Isang Yun Competition in Tongyeong (South Korea) [ 11 ] 2012: Fifth Prize in Queen Elisabeth Competition [ 12 ] 2015: First Prize in Singapore International Violin Competition [ 13 ] [ 14 ] 2015: Second Prize in the XV International Tchaikovsky Competition (no first prize awarded) [ 15 ] [ 16 ] Recordings [ edit ] His debut disc featuring music by French composers was released by Fuga Libera . Franck, Ravel, Debussy - French Violin Sonatas with Inga Dzektser, piano (Fuga Libera: FUG597) [ 17 ] Sarasate Violin Pieces (Chimei Museum: S000887011011088) [ 18 ] Reverie: Chopin, Ernst, Mozart, Tartini, Tchaikovsky, Wieniawski with Rohan De Silva , piano (Universal Music Taiwan / Deutsche Grammophon : UCCG-1774) [ 19 ] References [ edit ] ^ M.-P. and J.-M. Lambert. Concours Musical International Reine Elisabeth de Belgique, 2012 ^ "Yu-Chien Tseng of Curtis Institute top winner at Tchaikovsky Competition," Philadelphia Inquirer , July 2, 2015 ^ "Tseng takes yet another Guarneri violin to Europe," Taipei Times , July 9, 2012 ^ "Singapore International Violin Competition: Winner Tseng Yu-Chien was once thought to be tone-deaf," Straits Times , January 22, 2015 ^ Strong, Matthew (19 August 2017). "Taipei 2017 Summer Universiade opens with dazzling spectacle and political strife" . Taiwan News. Taiwan News . Retrieved 11 July 2020 . ^ "Prize winners since 1983 | Menuhin Competition" . Archived from the original on 2015-07-04 . Retrieved 2015-06-26 . ^ 2009 contest. Winners - navarra.es ^ "2008 – today | Premio Paganini Competition" . Archived from the original on 2015-07-04 . Retrieved 2015-06-27 . ^ Tseng takes yet another Guarneri violin to Europe ^ 2011 International Tchaikovsky Competition Results ^ Taiwanese violinist tops Isang Yun Competition ^ "Yu-Chien Tseng - Queen Elisabeth Competition" . Archived from the original on 2016-03-03 . Retrieved 2015-06-26 . ^ Singapore International Violin Competition ^ "Yu-Chien Tseng wins the Singapore International Violin Competition" . Archived from the original on 2015-06-29 . Retrieved 2015-06-27 . ^ Results of the XV International Tchaikovsky Competition in the Violin category | The XV International Tchaikovsky Competition ^ Chung, Jake (11 July 2015). " 'China Taipei' appellation for violinist plucks protest" . Taipei Times . Retrieved 11 July 2015 . ^ French Violin Sonatas | Outhere Music ^ Sarasate Violin Pieces | CHIMEI MUSEUM ^ "Reverie on Deutsche Grammophon" . amazon.com . VC ‘Young Artist’ Yu-Chien Benny Tseng Awarded Top Prize at Tchaikovsky Violin Comp | The Violin Channel Yu-Chien Tseng: Sibelius and Tchaikovsky Concertos | Violin: Final Round | The XV International Tchaikovsky Competition Archived 2015-07-01 at the Wayback Machine Tchaikovsky Competition 2015: violinist Yu-Chien Tseng performs Valse-Scherzo | The Strad Archived 2015-06-27 at the Wayback Machine VC YOUNG ARTIST | Yu-Chien Benny Tseng, 20 – Sarasate, Isang Yun & Singapore Competition 1st Prizes | The Violin Channel Tseng, Yu-Chien | CLASSICTIC.COM Teenage violinist performs with National Symphony Orchestra | Culture.tw Archived 2015-05-26 at the Wayback Machine Curtis Musicians Perform at the Mann Center June 29-July 1 | The Curtis Institute of Music Archived 2013-06-11 at the Wayback Machine External links [ edit ] Official website Yu-Chien Tseng at AllMusic Yu-Chien Tseng on Facebook Performance Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto | 3rd Mvt Authority control databases International ISNI VIAF WorldCat National France BnF data Spain Artists MusicBrainz Other IdRef Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Yu-Chien_Tseng&oldid=1353570341 " Categories : 1994 births Living people Musicians from New Taipei Deutsche Grammophon artists Taiwanese violinists Taiwanese classical musicians Curtis Institute of Music alumni Prize-winners of the International Tchaikovsky Competition Prize-winners of the Queen Elisabeth Competition Paganini Competition prize-winners 21st-century classical violinists Hidden categories: Articles with short description Short description matches Wikidata Articles containing traditional Chinese-language text Articles containing Chinese-language text Articles with hCards Webarchive template wayback links This page was last edited on 11 May 2026, at 01:51  (UTC) . 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