Yi Fan-Chiang (范姜毅, pinyin: Fàn jiāng yì, born 1981 in Taiwan ^[1]) is a Taiwanese classical pianist and piano professor.

From the age of three until eleven, Yi Fan-Chiang learned to play the piano at Yamaha Music School Taiwan, and in his final four years there also became interested in playing the clarinet and composing. ^[1] During his childhood in Taiwan he earned numerous awards in those disciplines. ^[1] In 1994 he emigrated to Germany ^[1] where he attended secondary school in Emmendingen ^[2] before studying piano with teachers such as Michael Uhde, Boris Lvov and Victor Merzhanov at the music academies Staatliche Hochschule für Musik Trossingen and Hochschule für Musik Karlsruhe. ^[1] In 1998 he went on to study at Hochschule für Musik und Theater Hannover, first with Martin Dörrie and then Matti Raekallio. ^[1]

Yi Fan-Chiang then became a piano instructor himself, teaching at the master and doctoral levels at Trossingen, substituting for Tomislav Baynov for three years. ^[3] Since 2012 he is a professor at the Taipei National University of the Arts, and in 2016 he became the head of the piano department there. ^[4] For two consecutive years, he has held the office of the councillor of the National Theater and Concert Hall, Taipei. ^[3]

Yi Fan-Chiang won awards at more than 30 piano competitions, ^[3] including the International Piano Competition of the Chopin-Gesellschaft Hannover, ^[5] the Bruno-Frey-Musikpreis 2002, ^[6] the Città di Minerbio International Piano Competition in 2003, ^[7] the Premio Pianistico Internationale "Stefano Marizza" in 2007, ^[8] the Ibiza International Piano Competition and the International Competition Città di Ovada, both in 2008. ^[9] Later he often served as jury member at piano competitions himself, including the Ibiza International Piano Competition in 2010, ^[10] the 37th Macao Young Musicians Competition in 2019 ^[11] and the Elevato Piano Competition in 2022. ^[12]

In 2021, Yi Fan-Chiang received a Golden Melody Award from Taiwan's Ministry of Culture in the "Best Instrumental Performance" category ^[13] for his piano concerto album Four Seasons in Taoyuan. ^[12]

Apart from the aforementioned teachers, Yi Fan-Chiang has studied under Paul Badura-Skoda, Peter Feuchtwanger, Pavel Gililov, Conrad Hansen, Klaus Hellwig, Yuri Rozum, Igor Zhukov, Einar Steen-Nøkleberg ^[1] and Justus Zeyen, ^[12] among others. He has collaborated with renowned musicians such as the German conductor and composer Klaus Arp, American violinist Joshua Bell and British-Hungarian conductor Gilbert Varga. ^[3]

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