Diyang Mei (viola)
Biography, Audio/Video, Photos, Concerto repertoire, Programmes
https://www.diyangmei.com
Biography
“The instantaneous grip, the electrifying playing style throughout, the logical phrasing, the rhythmic stability, and the staggeringly accurate intonation characterized all of Diyang Mei’s performances.”
Harald Eggebrecht, Süddeutsche Zeitung
Ever since violist Diyang Mei’s brilliant success at the 2018 ARD International Music Competition, winning first prize in the viola category, the Audience Prize and several special prizes, he has been steadily furthering his international career.
As a soloist, Diyang Mei has performed with the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, the SWR Symphony Orchestra Stuttgart, the Munich Chamber Orchestra, the Konzerthausorchester Berlin, the Scottish Chamber Orchestra and at the Mecklenburg-Vorpommern Festival, the SWR Festival Schwetzingen, the Schwarzwald Music Festival and the Mozartfest in Würzburg. He has performed with Günter Pichler, Gerald Schultz, Ana Chumachenco, Sabine Meyer, Christoph Prégardien, Krzysztof Chorzelski, Wenn Sinn Yang, Martin Ostertag, Dag Jensen, Andrea Lieberknecht and Nobuko Imai, among others. Diyang Mei has held the position of principal viola of the Munich Philharmonic Orchestra since the fall of 2019.
He was awarded first prizes at the 52nd International Instrumental Competition for Viola in Markneukirchen (2017), at the International Max Rostal Music Competition for Viola in Berlin (2015), at the Kulturkreis Gasteig Musikpreis for Strings in Munich (2015), at the IVC Young Artist Competition in Rochester (2012), at the 19th International Johannes Brahms Viola Competition in Austria (2012) and at the 10th International Viola and Cello Competition in Villa de Llanes, Spain (2008).
Mei’s first solo album is released by Genuin in the fall of 2019. He devotes the album to the genre twins, Chaconne and Passacaglia, with works by Bach, Biber, Hindemith, Britten, and Ligeti. Together with the Hochschule Symphony Orchestra Munich and Marcus Bosch, he performed the A. Schnittke Viola Concerto as his debut at the Gasteig Philharmonie Munich in December of 2019.
Diyang Mei has studied with Hariolf Schlichtig at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Munich since 2014 and as of October 2019, will continue his studies with Nobuko Imai at the Kronberg Academy. He is supported by both the Yu Art Foundation in China and the Borletti-Buitoni Trust and is also a Yehudi Menuhin LMN e.V. scholarship holder. His Giovanni Pistucci instrument from 1890 was provided to him by the Florian Leonhard Fine Violins in England.
Audio/Video
Concerto repertoire
J.C. Bach
Concerto for Viola in C minor
B. Bartók
Concerto for Viola
B. Britten
Lachrymae Op. 48
M. Bruch
Romance in F major, op. 85
E. Elgar (arr.)
Concerto for Cello in E minor (for Viola)
G.F. Handel
Concerto for Viola in B minor, op.6/12
P. Hindemith
“Der Schwanendreher”, Konzert für Viola & Kammerorchester
F. A. Hoffmeister
Concerto for Viola in D major
J.N. Hummel
Fantasie in E flat major, op.18
Potpourri op.94
W.A. Mozart
Sinfonia concertante for Violin and Viola in E flat major K. 364
N. Paganini
Sonate per la Grand Viola
A. Schnittke
Concerto for Viola
Monologue for Viola and Strings
C. Stamitz
Concerto for Viola in D major op.1
Takemitsu
A string around autumn
G.Ph. Telemann
Concerto for Viola in G major
W. Walton
Concerto for Viola
C.M. Weber
Andante e rondo Ungarese
C.F. Zelter
Concerto for Viola in E flat major
Programme
Viola/Klavier
Program 1
L.v. Beethoven
Nocturne for Viola and Piano in D major Op. 42
H. Vieuxtemps
Sonata for viola and piano in B flat major
Pause
M. de Falla
Siete canciones populares españolas
S. Prokofiev
Romeo and Juliet
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Program 2
F. Schubert
Sonata in a minor for Arpeggione and Piano, D. 821
P. Hindemith
Sonata Op. 25 no. 4
Pause
R. Schumann
Märchenbilder Op. 113
P. Hindemith
Sonata 1939
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Program 3
J. Brahms
Sonata in f minor, Op. 120 no. 1
P. Hindemith
Sonata Op. 11 no. 4
Pause
B. Martinu
Sonata for viola and piano
J. Brahms
Sonata in E flat major, Op. 120 no. 2
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Program 4
J.N. Hummel
Sonata for viola and piano Op. 5 no. 3
Clarke
Sonata for viola and piano
Pause
Shostakovich
Sonata for viola and piano Op. 147
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