Professional Biography
Chinese-born Yibin
Li has been playing violin since she was
5 years old.
Her career has taken her around the world, having made appearances in the United States, China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Japan. She also has performed with the best known orchestras in China and Taiwan, including the Bejing National Symphony Orchestra, the Shanghai Symphony Orchestra, and the Taiwan Symphony Orchestra. Most recently, Ms. Li was a violinist in the Syracuse Symphony Orchestra in New York.
Her European performances
have included concert tours in France and Germany, with the Shanghai Young
Artists' Symphony Orchestra. During 2002, her performance season began in
China with a five-concert tour, as guest soloist for the Xian Symphony Orchestra.
In December 2002, she gave a recital at Carnegie Weill Recital Hall, and in
August 2002,
she was on Jury for the Taiwan Kaoxiong International Music Competition. In
2003, Ms. Li played both in recitals and chamber music concerts through New
York area and the
East Coast.
In 1999, Ms. Li won
the Syracuse, NY Concerto Competition; she won the Shanghai Chamber Music
Competition in 1990, and the International Young Violinist Competition in
1986.
Her solo debut in Shanghai earned her the prestigious International prize
at the age of 14, when she was called
"a new rising star" by the Chinese Musical News.
She holds a Bachelor's
degree from the Shanghai Conservatory of Music, where upon graduation she
was invited to join the faculty as a lecturer in Violin. During her six-year
tenure on the faculty, she developed a reputation for her chamber music repertoire,
particularly her inspiring string quartets and piano trios. Her strong series
of string quartet performances on Radio China prompted critics from Chinese
Musical News to compliment her "versatility and marvelous imagination."
Taiwan News hailed her nationally-televised solo performance as a "brilliant
rendering of the violin repertoire."
Ms. Li recorded commercial
CDs for the China Record Studio, which are currently in distribution throughout
China and Taiwan. These published works include "Bach: Two Concertos for Solo
Violin in A Major and E Major," and "Mozart G Major Violin Concerto." With
the Shanghai Symphony Orchestra,
she also recorded the "Hung Hu Violin Concerto" by Chinese composer Zhan Hao
He.
Ms. Li holds a Masters Degree from the Juilliard School in Violin, and studied there under the tutelage of Mr. Lewis Kaplan and Mr. Seymour Lipkin.
Currently, Ms. Li teaches Music at Globe Institute in New York City, teaches violin to students in New York, and performs in New York and Asia. She lives in Tribeca with her husband, her daughter, and two cats.
