Ning Feng

Highlights in the 24/25 season include performances with Academy of St Martin-in-the-Fields on a tour to China, Aalborg Symphony, BBC Scottish Symphony, Hallé, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic and Seoul Philharmonic Orchestras. In recent seasons Ning Feng has performed with the New York Philharmonic, Los Angeles Philharmonic, Seattle Symphony, National Symphony and Minnesota Orchestras in the US.  In Europe he performs regularly with the very top orchestras, including Bavarian Radio Symphony, Frankfurt Radio Symphony, Vienna Radio, Helsinki Philharmonic and Berlin Konzerthaus Orchestra and in the UK with orchestras including London Philharmonic, Royal Philharmonic and Bournemouth Symphony. Elsewhere, he returned recently to the São Paulo Symphony Orchestra, Melbourne Symphony and KBS Symphony in Seoul. He has also performed many times with the Hong Kong Philharmonic, with whom he has toured Asia, Europe and Australia with van Zweden.

In China, Ning is held in the highest regard, appearing with all the major Chinese orchestras, in recital and regularly with visiting international orchestras such as the Budapest Festival Orchestra with Iván Fischer, with whom he has performed several times in Budapest, the Berlin Konzerthaus Orchester and Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra.  In 20/21 he was Artist-in-Residence with the Shanghai Symphony Orchestra and in 23/24 he was the Artist-in-Residence at the NCPA Beijing when he performed Mozart’s 5 Violin Concerti as well as the complete solo Sonatas and Partitas of Bach.  This season he will perform extensively throughout China as concerto soloist and in solo and chamber recital.

Ning performs regularly at London’s Wigmore Hall, returning in July 2025 for a duo recital with Yeol Eum Som. Other recital highlights in Europe this season include trio recitals with Nelson Goerner and Edgar Moreau and solo recitals with a programme of Bach and Paganini. He has performed many times at Kissinger Sommer Festival and at other festivals including Schubertiade, Schleswig-Holstein, Heidelberg, Ludwigsburg and has collaborated with artists such as Daniel Müller-Schott, Nicholas Angelich and Igor Levit.

Ning Feng records for Channel Classics.  His recording of Bach’s complete solo works for violin was hailed by Gramophone as “unlike anyone else’s… it’s the illusion of a freewheeling conversation projected from within"  His discography also includes concerti by Elgar and Tchaikovsky,  works for violin and orchestra by Bruch, Sarasate, Lalo, Ravel and others, the 24 Paganini Caprices and the complete Brahms Sonatas with Zee Zee. His next release in November 2024 will be of Prokofiev and Shostakovich Violin Concertos, with Bochum Symphony Orchestra and Tung-Chieh Chuang.

Born in Chengdu, China, Ning Feng studied at the Sichuan Conservatory of Music with Weimin Hu, the Hanns Eisler School of Music (Berlin) with Antje Weithaas and the Royal Academy of Music (London) with Hu Kun.  He was First Prize winner of both the 2005 Michael Hill International Violin Competition (New Zealand) and 2006 International Paganini Competition. 

Ning Feng plays the 1710 Stradivari violin known as the ‘Vieuxtemps Hauser’, by kind arrangement with Premiere Performances of Hong Kong, and plays on strings by Thomastik-Infeld, Vienna.  He lives in Berlin and is a Violin Professor at the Hanns Eisler Hochschule and also holds the position of International Chair of Violin at the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester. In China, he is the Artistic Director of the Chamber Music Academy at Zhejiang Conservatory of Music and Vice-Dean of the Violin Institute at Sichuan Conservatory of Music.

 

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