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Yin Chengzong
Buy Tickets: his concert at Carnegie Hall on 02/21/2003

Yin Chengzong: a well-known Chinese pianist and an accomplished composer. He won the Gold Medal for Piano at the World's Youth Peace & Friendship Festival in Vienna in 1959 and the Second Prize at the Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow in 1962.

Mr. Yin played as the soloist with the Philadelphia Orchestra, the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, the Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra and the Leningrad Philharmonic Orchestra. He is the only oriental artist whose performance appeared four times in solo recital in the Carnegie Hall in New York in 1991, 1993 and 1996 as well as his special performance there for its 100 anniversary since his triumphant debut there in 1983.

殷承宗的名字对在中国经历过文化大革命的人来说都不会陌生。钢琴伴奏红灯记, 沙家浜,和 红色娘子军以及至今仍脍灸人口的黄河钢琴协奏曲都出自于殷承宗的手。他不仅创作了这些音乐作品, 将这些作品引进当时音乐已销声匿迹的时代,而且他以炉火纯青的演奏技巧和别具魅力征服了亿万观众, 成为那个时代的名流。

殷承宗出生于福建厦门鼓浪屿的一个大家庭。由于受教堂音乐风行的鼓浪屿环境熏陶, 不到7岁就迷上了钢琴。9岁时,在老家的毓德女中礼堂成功地举行了首场钢琴演奏会。12岁那年。报考上 海音乐学院附中,在2,000名考生中以第一名的成绩录取。他是中国最早在莫斯科柴可夫斯基钢琴比赛获第 二名大奖的钢琴家,当时殷承宗20岁。在此之前,他还在维也纳举办的世界青年和平友谊音乐节中嬴得首奖。作为为祖国嬴得荣誉的钢琴家,他多次受到毛主席和周总理的接见。1965年到1983年间,殷承宗在中央交响乐团任钢琴独奏家,并在许多著名的乐队及指挥家的指挥下参与演出,例如尤金. 奥曼第带领的费城管弦乐团、阿巴多指挥的维也纳爱乐。孔德拉辛的莫斯科交响乐团,以及沙勒带领的圣彼 得堡爱乐等。早在1980年,殷承宗就作为中国四大音乐家之一,被载入英国新格罗夫音乐大辞典。1983年 殷承宗首次在美国卡内基厅演奏,之后被纽约时报称为“中国最优秀的钢琴家”。


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