Ning Feng

Ning Feng has performed with the New York Philharmonic, Los Angeles Philharmonic, National Symphony and Minnesota Orchestras in the US and will make his debut with the Seattle Symphony in 23/24.  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 with whom he is reunited this season, when he also returns to the Tenerife Symphony and makes his debut with the Trondheim Symphony.  He performs regularly with the UK orchestras including London Philharmonic, Royal Philharmonic, Bournemouth Symphony and elsewhere 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 will be Artist-in-Residence at the NCPA Beijing when he will perform Mozart’s 5 Violin Concerti as well as the complete solo Sonatas and Partitas of Bach.  This season he also performs the 3 Brahms Sonatas with Zee Zee across China.

Ning performs regularly at London’s Wigmore Hall, appearing three times in 23/24: in a solo recital, a duo with Zee Zee and a new collaboration with Nelson Goerner.  He has performed many times at Kissinger Sommer Festival, where he returned in 2023, and at other festivals including Schubertiade, Schleswig-Holstein, Heidelberg, Ludwigsburg and has collaborated with artists such as Edgar Moreau, 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.

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 and Artistic Director at the Chamber Music Academy of the Zhejiang Conservatory of Music.

2023/24 season / 587 words. Not to be altered without permission.