Yangfan

YANG Fan serves as an Associate Professor and Master Student Supervisor at the School of Arts, South China University of Technology, and as a Part-Time Associate Professor at the School of Culture and Creativity, Beijing Normal-Hong Kong Baptist University. He holds a Doctor of Musical Arts degree from the University of Cincinnati.

YANG has appeared as a freelance musician with renowned orchestras, including the Guangzhou Symphony Orchestra, the City Chamber Orchestra of Hong Kong, the Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra, the Hong Kong Sinfonietta, the Macau Orchestra, and the Richmond Symphony Orchestra in Indiana. His engagements also extend to numerous opera and ballet productions. Additionally, he has been a member of the Topeka Symphony Orchestra in Kansas and participated in the Asian tour with André Rieu’s Johann Strauss Orchestra.

Recently, his article, Viola as Prima Donna, was featured in the Journal of American Viola Society’s summer issue in 2025. Prior to this, his academic work Reconsidering the Nineteenth-Century Potpourri: Johann Nepomuk Hummel's Op. 94 for Viola and Orchestra was published in the Italian music journal Ad Parnassum. He also serves as the event & editing manager of the Schoenfeld International String Competition in Harbin and is the president of the Shen Zhen Philharmonic Chamber Music Society. Previously, he was the China region managing director for the Great Wall International Music Academy, and taught at the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts Junior Music Programme and the Macau Youth Symphony Orchestra.

His educational journey began at the age of six, studying violin and viola under Professor WANG Jia Yang. He graduated as an outstanding student from Shen Zhen Arts School and later received first-class honours from the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts. During his time there, he had the privilege of performing on a 1770 viola, crafted by Lorenzo Storioni in Cremona, and on loan from the Hong Kong Jockey Club Charities Trust. His performances with the Academy included quartet concerts in Thailand and England. His viola teachers in the United States include Chung-Hoon Peter CHUN, Catharine Carroll LEES, and Masao KAWASAKI, and conducting teachers include Aik Khai PUNG, Annunziata TOMARO, and Mark GIBSON.