Yin Zhi Yang (Dizi Principal)

Yin Zhi Yang was born in Dandong City, Liaoning Province, China.

He started learning violin and dizi at the age of eight. He had studied dizi under the tutelage of Professor Kong Qing Shan and Professor Zhang Wei Liang. After graduating from China Conservatory of Music in 1991, he served in the China Central Song and Dance Troupe as a soloist. He joined the Singapore Chinese Orchestra in October 1997 as a dizi performer and is currently its Dizi Principal.

Yin received an Outstanding Performance Award at the China National Chinese Music Competition Shan Cheng Cup in 1989 and came in First at the China Central Song and Dance Troupe Audition in 1992. In 1988, Yin performed bangdi concerto composed by Ma Shui Long, a Taiwan composer at the Beijing Concert Hall with the China Central Chinese Orchestra. He held a solo recital at the Beijing Concert Hall in 1990. He was an adjudicator at the First Beijing Primary and Secondary School Chinese Instrumental Music Competition in 1994. He also recorded a compact disc.

Yin participated in many performances in China and overseas including Japan, Vietnam, Malaysia, Singapore and Macau.