Organ Scholarship 2023
Tingshuo Yang
Today, the Charles Wood Festival introduces Tingshuo Yang as the recipient of the 2023 Theo Saunders Scholarship. This scholarship enables a young organist to attend the Festival free of charge, working alongside the Charles Wood Singers under the guidance of Artistic Director David Hill.
Tingshuo is a young pianist, composer and organist based in Luxembourg. Born in 2004 in Shanghai, China, Tingshuo has shown significant talents and capabilities in music. He joined the Conservatoire de la Ville de Luxembourg (CVL) in 2013, and has been studying piano with Prof. Jean Muller. At the CVL he broadened his interests not only in classical performance, but also in composition, violin, improvisation and organ. He was the winner of annual award of “Prix du meilleur laureat” in 2019.
Tingshuo has shown natural talent, intuitive love, and insatiable curiosity about music since his childhood. He had his first piano lesson at age four, was admitted to the Royal College of Music Junior Department in London in 2012 aged eight, passed the DipABRSM aged 10 and the LRSM piano performance certificate 2 years later, making him one of the youngest LRSM certificate holders in the world. In 2021, he attained his ARCO organ diploma.
He was the winner of 4th International Composition Competition ‘Artistes en Herbe’ in 2017, Gold Medal in the Luxembourg Concours pour Jeunes Solistes in 2017, Prix 88 Golden Keys in 2018, and was awarded the Music Scholarship by Eton College, United Kingdom in 2018. In 2020, he came runner up in the Composition Competition of the Royal College of Organists. In 2022, he was awarded an organ scholarship and a place to read music at St John’s College, Cambridge, starting in September 2023.
Tingshuo made his debut with the Luxembourg Philharmonic Orchestra in April 2019. In January 2020 he was invited by the Luxembourg embassy in Berlin to be the soloist at the opening concert of the series “Young Luxembourgish Classical Talents”. In November 2022, he was invited to play a solo recital as part of Esch2022, European Capital of Culture events. Now he’s launching his new milestone, to record a two-set CD album conveying the freshness and energy of Bach’s six keyboard partitas.
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