Twenty-four-year-old William Yang won first prize at the 2025 National Chopin Piano Competition in Miami, Florida. Along with the $100,000 first prize, he also receives a recording project on the Steinway label and a concert tour that includes a performance at Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall in June, 2025. At the same Competition, William was awarded prizes for the best performance of a mazurka and sonata. More recently at the Nineteenth International Fryderyk Chopin Piano Competition, he was awarded the Sixth Prize. 

As a soloist, Mr. Yang has appeared with the Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra, Southeast Iowa Symphony Orchestra, Minnesota Orchestra, and Warsaw Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra. He studied at the Curtis Institute of Music and recently graduated as a Kovner Fellow at The Juilliard School, studying under Robert McDonald. He is currently studying with Alexander Korsantia at the Yale School of Music. He previously studied with Paul Wirth. Mr. Yang has also received instruction from Yoheved Kaplinsky, Antonio Pompa-Baldi, Gary Graffman, Peter Takacs, Boris Berman, and Andre Watts, among others.

 William Yang began piano studies at the age of four and gave his first performances at age seven. Outside of piano, William enjoys playing table tennis.

Contact at: wyangec@gmail.com