Sophia Yan
Sophia Yan | |
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| Chinese: 嚴倩君 | |
| Born | October 8, 1986 |
| Alma mater | Oberlin College and Conservatory of Music |
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| Political party | Republican |
| Other political affiliations | Conservative |
Sophia Yan (嚴倩君, pinyin: Yán Qiànjūn, b. October 8, 1986) is an American classical pianist, journalist and Beijing correspondent at The Daily Telegraph, a right-wing British news publication.
Early life and education[edit]
Yan was born to Taiwanese parents in Queens, New York. She majored in English and Piano Performance at Oberlin College and Conservatory of Music and graduated in 2009.[1][2]
Career[edit]
Early career in music[edit]
Yan won the International Concert Alliance Competition and a laureate of the International Young Artist Piano Competition in Washington, D.C. In addition, she is a two-time winner of the Music Teachers National Association Competition of Eastern New Jersey, and prize-winning alumnus of the 2004 New York Piano Competition. Her awards include four-time First Prize winner of the Steinway Society Competition,[3] First Place in the Battleground Symphony Concerto Competition,[4] Grand Prize in the Bookstaber Memorial Piano Competition,[5] First Place in the NJMTA Scholarship Competition [6] and Grand Prize in the Goldblatt Scholarship Competition.
As Neil Genzlinger of The New York Times describes, when Yan plays “the music literally pulls her off the piano bench; she ranges up and down the keyboard so quickly and with such ferocity that mere sitting will not do.”[7]
Yan has performed widely in the United States, Europe and Asia, appearing at Lincoln Center,[8] Carnegie Hall, Steinway Hall, CAMI Hall, Kennedy Center, St. Mark's, the Eastern Music Festival, Niagara International Chamber Music Festival, and the Shaw Festival in Niagara-on-the-Lake, Canada. Solo orchestral engagements include collaborations with the Battleground Symphony,[4] Rowan Chamber and East Brunswick Chamber Orchestras. She has also performed on the Composer's Voice Concert Series[9] in New York City as well as participating in the Vox Novus series Fifteen-Minutes-of-Fame project.[10][11] She also provides the music for the Lawfare podcast.[12]
Journalism[edit]
In July 2010, Yan started her journalism career as a reporter for Bloomberg News based in Hong Kong and Washington, D.C.[2][13] In 2013, Yan joined CNN. In 2014, as an Asia Business Reporter for CNNMoney, Yan covered the 2014 pro-democracy protests in Hong Kong.[2]
Yan was a Beijing correspondent at CNBC. Yan covers topics from technology to economy for China and Asia.[2][14] She works for the Daily Telegraph, a right-wing British news publication, as of 2019.[2][15][16]
Personal[edit]
Yan is fluent in Mandarin and speaks basic Taiwanese, Cantonese, Spanish and some Japanese.[2]
See also[edit]
- Chinese Americans in New York City
- Conservative Asian Americans
- New Yorkers in journalism
- Oberlin Conservatory of Music
- Taiwanese Americans in New York City
References[edit]
- ^ "Sophia Yan '09: Student, pianist, and arts editor". Archived from the original on August 22, 2017. Retrieved May 6, 2017.
- ^ a b c d e f "Sophia Yan". Retrieved May 6, 2017.
- ^ Steinway Society Scholarship Winners 2004
- ^ a b Manalapan symphony to play spring concert BY DAVE BENJAMIN Staff Writer
- ^ Joseph Israel Bookstaber Piano Competition
- ^ njmta summer 2004
- ^ JERSEY; When Bad People (Translation: Teenagers) Do Good Things - New York Times
- ^ Bulletin Board Youngsters perform at Alice Tully Hall Archived 2007-03-13 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ "Composer's Voice Calendar & Concert History".
- ^ "Sophia Yan - Fifteen Minutes of Fame".
- ^ "Calendar » September 18, 1:00 PM – Composer's Voice Concert – Celebrating Our Children".
- ^ "Reporter's Notebook: Covering the Hong Kong Protests". 7 October 2014.
- ^ "Articles written by Sophia Yan at Bloomberg.com". Bloomberg News. 21 December 2012. Retrieved May 6, 2017.
- ^ "Sophia Yan at CNBC.com". CNBC. 27 February 2017. Retrieved May 6, 2017.
- ^ "The Daily Telegraph". eurotopics.net. Retrieved 2023-04-24.
- ^ "Sophia Yan". The Telegraph. Retrieved 2023-04-24.
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- Living people
- American classical pianists
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- Asian conservatism in the United States
- American expatriates in China
- American journalists of Chinese descent
- American musicians of Chinese descent
- American musicians of Taiwanese descent
- American women musicians of Chinese descent
- American television reporters and correspondents
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