Daniel Guangnan Yue
Daniel Guangnan Yue
Director of Hawaii International Music Academy
Daniel Guangnan Yue was born in Datong, China, and began playing the violin before the age of three. Although his violin studies were interrupted for several years, his talent was finally discovered. By the age of ten, Daniel was selected into the Central Conservatory of Music in Beijing with the highest ranking. After winning first place in the entrance exam for the upper school division in 2006, he studied for four years in the studio of Weidong Tong. At the age of 13, Daniel was selected to play a concert with the Moscow Symphony Orchestra as the representative of the China-Russia relationship on behalf of the government in 2006. He received an honorable prize in the Eighth National Youth Violin Competition in Qingdao, China. In 2007, he was selected to study at the Morningside Music Bridge on a full scholarship in Calgary, Canada. The following year, he appeared in a concert with the China National Symphony Orchestra and attended the Great Wall International Music Academy Summer Camp on a full scholarship. The biggest achievement for him in 2008 was the Silver Medal of the 2008 China Central Television Piano & Violin Competition. In school, Daniel then went on to serve as the Concertmaster of the Chinese Youth Symphony Orchestra. Beginning in 2009. he successively attended Lipinski-Wieniawski International Competition in Poland and the Sixth International Tchaikovsky Competition for Young Musicians in South Korea. He was also honored with a full scholarship to the Meadowmount School of Music.
In April 2010, Daniel was selected for a private master lesson with prestigious maestro Anne Sophie Mutter in Shanghai. Shortly thereafter, Daniel was selected by The Juilliard School’s Pre-College Division, to study under full scholarship in the studio of Lewis Kaplan. Each year since, he spent his summers at the Bowdoin International Music Festival in Brunswick (3 times), Maine, Conservatoire Américain de Fontainebleau in France (twice) and Portland Bach Music Festival, all on full scholarships. He played at Carnegie Hall in 2013 after winning the KBS New York International Violin Competition, and the Yokohama Chamber Orchestra in Japan while playing at the Sendai International Music Competition. In 2014, the year he got into The Juilliard School, he was invited by the Christie’s Auction House to present the 1731 Kreutzer Stradivarius violin and played it at the auction party. Recently, he appeared in numerous concerts in China and was invited by the Hong Kong International Music Festival to serve as a faculty and jury member in both of the festival’s music camp and competition. In 2018, he was invited by the British government to perform in 6 cities and in locations such as the House of Parliament and the Institute of Directors.
In 2019, he won the job at Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra and started playing with the orchestra since January.