The best partner, Ms Izaskun ERDOCIA, Principal flutist of the HKS.		Over 70 performances....."Cats"

Danny Yau joined the Hong Kong Sinfonietta in 1990, after returned from New York. Besides the regular orchestral concerts, his solo performances included Richard Strauss's Oboe Concerto, Aaron Copland's Quiet City in 1993, Vivaldi' Double Oboe Concerto in 1995. In 1994 he participated in a musical "Cats" for over 70 performances and some educational programmes for children on CD. He actives in both orchestral music and chamber music. Besides, he devotes himself to teach and he is teaching at the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts and the Chinese University of Hong Kong. He was invited as an adjudicator for the Macao Youth Music Festival in 1998. His recital has been broadcast by the Radio 4 RTHK in May 1999. This summer, he played the oboe solo part of the latest CD of Gigi Wingkei LEUNG "Kiss" which released on August 17th 2000.

He began his piano lessons at the age of six and joined the Hong Kong Children's Choir in the same year. He went to the concert tours with the choir to United States in 1981, Italy and France in 1982. In 1981 he began his oboe lessons with Ms Lynn Levey, oboist of the Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra, at the Music Office of the Hong Kong Government. He passed the Grade 8 oboe exam of the Associated Board of The Royal Schools of Music two years later. In the following years, he won numerous awards which included winners of oboe solos for three times and woodwind ensemble at the Hong Kong Schools Music Festivals. In 1985, he went to a concert tour with the Hong Kong Youth Symphony Orchestra to Shanghai and Beijing. In the same year he studied at the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts with Mr Peter Cooper, former Principal Oboist of the Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra. He was highly recommended by the Academy to finish the programme a year earlier because of his outstanding performance during that period.

In 1987 he was invited to perform with the Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields under the baton of Sir Neville Marriner in its Far East Concert Tour. He awarded a scholarship from the Bernard Van Zuiden Music Fund in the same year.

In 1988 he received a full scholarship from the New York Mannes College of Music where he received his Master of Music Degree later. He studied with Mr John Ferrillo (current Principal Oboe of the Boston Symphony Orchestra) and Ms Elaine Douvas, Principal Oboists of the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra. He premiered a work of an English composer, Sir Lennox Berkeley's Oboe Sonatina Op.61, in New York. He was selected to perform in the master classes of Richard Woodhams and John Mack, Principal Oboist of the Philadelphia Orchestra and the Cleveland Orchestra.

Recommentdation letters:-

Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields

The London Symphony Orchestra

Evelyn Barbirolli

Awards

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