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Li-Wei Qin

Source: Melbourne Symphony OrchestraJuly/08/2022


Chinese-Australian cellist Li-Wei Qin has appeared all over the world as a soloist and chamber musician.
Twice a soloist at the BBC Proms in London’s Royal Albert Hall, Li-Wei has enjoyed successful artistic collaborations with many of the world’s great orchestras including all the BBC symphony orchestras, the Los Angeles, London, and Hong Kong, Osaka, China and NDR Hamburg Philharmonic Orchestras, Berlin Radio Symphony and Konzerthaus Orchestra, La Verdi Orchestra Milan, Vienna Radio Orchestra, Prague Symphony, London Symphony, Sydney Symphony, and the Munich, Manchester, Zurich, Brussels and the Australian Chamber Orchestras. 

Li-Wei’s recordings on Universal Music/Decca include the complete Beethoven Sonatas, Rachmaninov with Albert Tiu, Dvoräk Concerto with Singapore Symphony Orchestra, and Elgar and Walton Concerti with the London Philharmonic Orchestra. Li-Wei’s 2013 live concert with the Shanghai Symphony and with maestro Yu Long has been released on Sony Classical. 

He is currently Professor and Head of Cello studies at the National University Singapore and is guest professor at Shanghai and Central Conservatory of Music, China and visiting professor, Chamber music, at the Royal Northern College of Music. Li-Wei plays a 1780 Joseph Guadagnini cello, generously loaned by Dr and Mrs Wilson Goh.
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