Yu-Chien (Benny) Tseng曾宇謙, Violinist

Yu-Chien Tseng (曾宇謙)(born August 24th, 1994) is a Taiwanese violinist. In 2012 he was fifth laureate in the Queen Elisabeth Music Competition, where he also won both the Musiq’3and the Klara–Canvas prizes awarded by the public. In 2015 he won the second prize in the International Tchaikovsky Competition, the highest prize in the violin competition since there was no first prize that year. Tseng has recorded for Fuga Libera and the Chimei Museum.

Yu-Chien Tseng was born in New Taipei, Taiwan. In pre-school, Tseng’s parents worried that he was tone deaf. His father enrolled him in percussion classes after hearing tests showed Tseng’s hearing to be normal. He started to study the violin at the age of 5. By the age of 6, he had already performed with the Taipei Symphony Orchestra. In his native Taiwan, he studied with Po-Shan Lin, Ying-Liang Shen, I-Ching Li and C. Nanette Chen. Since 2008 he has studied at the Curtis Institute of Music, under professors Ida Kavafian and Aaron Rosand. In 2009 he won the 10th Pablo Sarasate International Competition in Pamplona (Spain). In 2011 he won the Isang Yun Competition in Tongyeong (South Korea) and also was awarded a special prize at the XIV International Tchaikovsky Competition (as best of those in Round II who did not make the finals). In 2012 he took fifth place in the Queen Elisabeth Competition in Brussels. He has performed with the Philadelphia Orchestra, the National Orchestra of Belgium, and the symphony orchestras of Singapore, Taipei, and Navarra among others. He has given solo concerts in cities in the US, Europe and Asia.

曾宇謙（Yu-Chien Tseng，1994年8月24日－），生於臺灣臺北縣（今新北市），是一位小提琴家。

5歲開始習琴，師從林柏山、沈英良、李宜錦、陳沁紅。2016年畢業於美國費城的柯蒂斯音樂學院，師事Ida Kavafian、Aaron Rosand。為2009年西班牙薩拉沙泰國際小提琴比賽首獎得主，2012年比利時伊莉莎白女王大賽第五名得主，2015年俄國柴可夫斯基國際音樂比賽小提琴第二名得主（第一名從缺）。且擁有絕對音感。

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