High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Yang Liu was born in Tsingtao, China, Liu is a Chinese classical violinist. He made his concert debut at age 10 performing Sarasate’s Zigeunerweisen with the NHK Orchestra in Tokyo, and also performed the Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto in a nationally televised live concert with the Central Philharmonic Orchestra in Beijing, which drew attention of the renowned violin pedagogue Yao-Ji Lin. He began to study with Lin at the Central Conservatory of Music in Beijing, and soon afterward, began to concertize as a soloist internationally. His concert tours have led him to Hong Kong, Taiwan, Germany, France, Switzerland, Austria, Russia, Greece, China, Egypt and America. In pursuit of further musical development, Yang moved to the US in 1998, and continued his studies with Dorothy DeLay and Kurt Sassmannshaus at College-Conservatory of Music in Cincinnati.