Home    |     About    |     Donate     |     Auditorium     |     Contact   |     Board Members   |     Scholarship    |     History   Yang & Olivia Piano and Violin Classics to Pop Saturday, March 22, 2025, 7:30 pm Culpeper County High School Auditorium    Click picture to Start and Stop Video             Yang Liu  and  Olivia Tsai    Classically trained dynamic violin piano duo Yang and Olivia perform not only classical music, but also world contemporary, folk and country music, turning your favorite tunes from every genre into violin/piano transcriptions. In recent years, the two have performed in over 30 US cities and internationally, teaching in China, Portugal, Brazil, and Taiwan. Their performances feature stunning renditions of works by Mozart, Dmitri Cervo, Schumann and Brahms, as well as Chinese composers like Chihchun Chi-sun Lee. This performance is not to be missed! Yang Liu's  playing has been praised as "a scorching performance!" by The New York Times and "...from China, with dazzling talent!" by Washington Post. Yang Liu is the first prize winner of the International Artists Award Competition, the Medici International Music Competition, China’s National Violin Competition, and a prize winner of the Twelfth International Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow. He has performed as a soloist with world-leading orchestras including the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, St. Louis Symphony Orchestra, and Danish Royal Odense Philharmonic to name a few. His award-winning album "Song of Nostalgia" showcases his virtuosity and musicality. Born in QingDao, China, Yang studied in Central Conservatory with Professor Yaoji Lin in Beijing China and the College-Conservatory of Music in Cincinnati with Professor Kurt Sassmannshaus and Dorothy Delay. Under the extraordinary ability immigration program, Mr. Liu became an American citizen in 2014. Dr. I-Hsuan Olivia Tsai currently serves as an associate professor of VanderCook College of Music in Chicago. She is also the pianist of the award-winning violin-piano duo, Yang and Olivia, which has toured in the US, China, and Brazil. In addition, Tsai has appeared as a soloist with QingDao Concert Hall Orchestra, Southern Illinois Symphony Orchestra, and Highland Park Strings. She was the staff pianist of the world-renowned Aspen Music Festival and Musicorda Music Festival in the US, as well as artist faculty/performer of the Oficina Music Festival, Curitiba Music Festival in Brazil, and Algarve Music Festival in Portugal. In addition to performances, her book "Schubert's Piano Trios" was published by Scholar's Press in 2014. In 2018, she co-founded Yang and Olivia Foundation to promote cultural exchange via classical music between China and the US. Since the pandemic, the foundation has dedicated its mission to promoting diversity, equality and inclusion, featuring music with diverse cultural influences. Olivia has appeared in numerous music teacher’s associations and college music society’s conferences sharing the music of her Asian heritage. For information on our annual subscription plans click on "Subscribe" in the menu bar.         ©     Stage Alive Community Concert Association Inc.