Yi Lin Jiang

Yi Lin Jiang’s upbringing across multiple countries equipped him well for a career as an international performer. In addition to his concert schedule, he works as a teacher, established the Jiang Artists Festival as its artistic director, and created the ANCLEF imprint, on which he and pianist Jacopo Giovannini released the four-hand album H2O in 2024.

Born in Munich in 1988, Jiang passed his first years in China before his family resettled in Germany, where he took up the piano. At age six he began studies with Barbara Strauß; four years later he played a Haydn concerto and received the Youth Culture Prize of Kaufbeuren. He continued his training at the Mozarteum in Salzburg under Karl-Heinz Kämmerling, moved with him to the Hanover University of Music, Drama and Media, and in 2012 commenced lessons with Ewa Kupiec. His first recording, Masques, appeared on Solaris Records in 2014 and earned favorable notice for its solo pieces by Szymanowski, Scriabin, Debussy, and additional composers. From 2015 onward Jiang has served as Kupiec’s assistant at the Hanover institution, advancing to a docent position in 2017.

He has collected awards in Germany and abroad for both solo and chamber performances, among them collaborations with his father, clarinetist Binwei Jiang. Appearances at various festivals brought him into contact with Herbert Schuch, the Amaryllis Quartet, the Szymanowski Quartet, and composer Toshio Hosokawa. In 2018 Jiang inaugurated the Jiang Artists Festival in Kaufbeuren. His engagements have taken him to leading venues throughout Germany, other parts of Europe, and China, as well as to broadcasts by Bayerischer Rundfunk and Österreichischer Rundfunk.

Dualis, Part 1, his second album, came out on Solaris Records in 2019. The next year he launched ANCLEF and, with Jacopo Giovannini, issued its debut EP Philia, devoted to music by Brahms. In 2021 he returned to Solaris for Dualis, Part 2, while ANCLEF brought out its first complete album, IV·XXI (In Memoriam), which received three Opus Klassik nominations. Jiang and Giovannini reunited in 2024 for H2O, a collection of four-hand transcriptions of works by Respighi, Rimsky-Korsakov, and Ravel. For 2025 Jiang has scheduled the album Apothéose Infernale in observance of the 150th anniversary of Ravel’s birth.