舊金山交響樂團中提琴首席 劉韻傑 Yun-Jie Liu教授，將於11月15日至本系舉辦中提琴大師班，歡迎大家前往聽講。
◎主 題：Viola Master Class
◎主講人：劉韻傑 Yun-Jie Liu教授
◎時 間：2010年11月15日(一) 13:10~14:50
◎地 點：北藝大音樂一館 M101教室
劉韻傑 / 中提琴
Yun-Jie Liu is Acting Principal Violist of the San Francisco Symphony. Born in Shanghai, he joined the San Francisco Symphony in 1993 as Associate Principal Viola. He had also served as Principal Violist of the San Diego Symphony. In 1990, he was invited by Mstislav Rostropovich to join the National Symphony Orchestra in Washington DC.
As a soloist, Mr. Liu has appeared with the San Diego Symphony, Shanghai Symphony, Fairfax Symphony, Hong Kong Sinfonietta, Shanghai Youth Orchestra, the Music Academy of the West Orchestra, and the USC Symphony. He also regularly gives chamber music concerts and solo recitals, having performed in New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, San Diego, Powell River (British Columbia), Washington DC, Shanghai, and Hong Kong. In 1999 he performed the US premiere of George Benjamin’s Viola, Viola with Geraldine Walther. In 2004 he gave the Chinese premieres of Bohuslav Martin.’s Rhapsody-Concerto for Viola and Orchestra and Paganini's Grand Sonata for Viola and Orchestra.
Mr. Liu has participated in the Grand Teton Music Festival, La Jolla Chamber Music Festival, Arcady Chamber Music Festival, and the Hong Kong 1997 Reunification Arts Festival. In 1994 he organized a chamber orchestra of thirty-five Chinese musicians from the US for a historical concert tour to Shanghai and Beijing. He has served as guest principal violist of the Los Angeles Philharmonic, Hong Kong Sinfonietta, Hyogo Performing Arts Center Orchestra in Japan, and the Asia Philharmonic Orchestra in South Korea/Japan.
Mr. Liu has given viola and chamber music master classes in the US, China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Japan, and Canada. From 1999 to 2007 he served as viola coach of the Asian Youth Orchestra in Hong Kong.
Yun-Jie Liu began his violin studies with his father. At the age of sixteen, he entered the middle school of the Shanghai Conservatory of Music, where his teachers included Shen Xi-Di and Wu Fei. He was named Assistant Professor of Viola upon graduation in 1985. A year later he came to the United States to study with Donald McInnes and Alan DeVeritch at the University of Southern California.