Participant
Hiu Sing Fan
Violin
Accepted to the preliminary round of the 2026 Naumburg International Violin Competition.
Biography supplied for the 2026 competition.
Hong Kong violinist Hiu Sing Fan ranked among the top six at both the 2025 Premio Paganini International Violin Competition and the 2024 George Enescu International Violin Competition. Praised by The Dallas Morning News for his “cool refinement and fine focus,” he is also the Second Prize and Audience Choice Award winner of the 2025 Dallas International Violin Competition and the 2026 Guerrena Fellow of the Meadowmount School of Music.
Fan has appeared as soloist with Camerata Salzburg, the Hong Kong Sinfonietta, and the Dallas Chamber Symphony, and has served as Guest Concertmaster of the Cologne Chamber Orchestra. An alumnus of The Juilliard School and the Hochschule für Musik und Theater München, where his teachers included I-Hao Lee, Hyo Kang, Julia Fischer, and Christoph Poppen, he is currently pursuing his Doctor of Musical Arts degree at Northwestern University under Gerardo Ribeiro.
Pianists
2026 International Violin Competition
Liang-yu Wang
, piano
Taiwanese pianist Liang-yu Wang performs internationally as a chamber musician and collaborative pianist. Her engagements have taken her to the Romanian Athenaeum in Bucharest, Flagey in Brussels, the Banff Centre, and Taiwan’s National Concert Hall. She has appeared on chamber-music series including the Dame Myra Hess Memorial Concerts and the Morgan Library & Museum’s First Song Series, and her performances have been broadcast by WFMT, PBS, and Belgium’s Klara.
Wang’s recording with cellist Thomas Landschoot, Balabille, features sonatas by Debussy, Poulenc, and Chopin and received a Golden Melody Award nomination in Taiwan. Her work with living composers includes a collaboration with Frank Nuyts, who wrote his Piano Sonata No. 19 for her. She premiered it in Paris in 2016 during a residency at the Cité des Arts.
Her institutional work includes collaborative-piano appointments at Northwestern University and Meadowmount, as well as earlier positions at Indiana University and Western Illinois University. She earned master’s and doctoral degrees in collaborative piano at Arizona State University and a piano-performance diploma at Indiana University.