Background
Yu-Chien Tseng was born in New Taipei, Taiwan. His father enrolled him in percussion classes after hearing tests showed Tseng"s hearing to be normal.
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Yu-Chien Tseng was born in New Taipei, Taiwan. His father enrolled him in percussion classes after hearing tests showed Tseng"s hearing to be normal.
In his native Taiwan, he studied with Po-Shan Lin, Ying-Liang Shen, I-Ching Li and C. Nanette Chen.
Tseng has recorded for Fuga Libera and the Chimei Museum. In pre-school, Tseng"s parents worried that he was tone deaf. He started to study the violin at the age of 5.
By the age of 6, he had already performed with the Taipei Symphony Orchestra.
Since 2008 he has studied at the Curtis Institute of Music, under professors Ida Kavafian and Aaron Rosand. In 2012 he took fifth place in the Queen Elisabeth Competition in Brussels.
He has performed with the Philadelphia Orchestra, the National Orchestra of Belgium, and the symphony orchestras of Singapore, Taipei, and Navarra among others He has given solo concerts in cities in the United States, Europe and Asia.