Texan wins Germany’s Bernstein award
mainThe violinist Charles Yang has been awarded the 2018 Leonard Bernstein Award of the Schleswig-Holstein Musik Festival.
Yang, 29, from Austin, Texas, earns 10,000 Euros and a summer concert in Schleswig-Holstein.
He’s a member of the crossover group, Time for Three.
We heard him while he was still a Juilliard student. He covers many other facets of music besides strictly classical which he does exceedingly well. He also has a marvelous sense of humor.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=femdAES2Y14
He has not been with the group that long! One story is that he responded to a craigslist ad. (It’s how I started playing again.) The player he replaced, and the player before, both left for concertmaster positions with major orchestras. And who knows how long he will stay?