Sophia Yan

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| native_name = {{zh|t=嚴倩君}}

| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1986|10|8}}

| birth_place = New York City, New York, U.S.

| alma_mater = Oberlin College and Conservatory of Music

| occupation = {{hlist|Classical pianist|journalist}}

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Sophia Yan (嚴倩君, pinyin: Yán Qiànjūn, b. October 8, 1986) is an American classical pianist and a journalist at The Daily Telegraph.

Early life and education

Yan was born to Taiwanese parents in Queens, New York. She majored in English and Piano Performance at Oberlin College and Conservatory of Music and graduated in 2009.{{cite web |url=https://oncampus.oberlin.edu/source/articles/2007/11/28/sophia-yan-09 |title=Sophia Yan '09: Student, pianist, and arts editor |access-date=May 6, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170822023910/https://oncampus.oberlin.edu/source/articles/2007/11/28/sophia-yan-09 |archive-date=August 22, 2017 |url-status=dead }}{{cite web|url=http://www.sophia-yan.com/about-sophia/| title= Sophia Yan |access-date= May 6, 2017}} She is fluent in Mandarin and speaks basic Taiwanese, Cantonese, Spanish, and some Japanese.

Career

= Early career in music =

Yan won the International Concert Alliance Competition and a laureate of the International Young Artist Piano Competition in Washington, D.C. In addition, she is a two-time winner of the Music Teachers National Association Competition of Eastern New Jersey, and prize-winning alumnus of the 2004 New York Piano Competition. Her awards include four-time First Prize winner of the Steinway Society Competition,[http://www.princetonol.com/groups/steinway/Winners2004.htm Steinway Society Scholarship Winners 2004] First Place in the Battleground Symphony Concerto Competition,[https://web.archive.org/web/20041228221435/http://newstranscript.gmnews.com/news/2004/0505/Front_Page/064.html Manalapan symphony to play spring concert BY DAVE BENJAMIN Staff Writer] Grand Prize in the Bookstaber Memorial Piano Competition,[http://bookstaber.com/joseph/piano.html Joseph Israel Bookstaber Piano Competition] First Place in the NJMTA Scholarship Competition [http://www.njmta.com/newsletters/2004q3.pdf njmta summer 2004] and Grand Prize in the Goldblatt Scholarship Competition.

As Neil Genzlinger of The New York Times describes, when Yan plays “the music literally pulls her off the piano bench; she ranges up and down the keyboard so quickly and with such ferocity that mere sitting will not do.”[https://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F60816FE3E540C708DDDAF0894DC404482 JERSEY; When Bad People (Translation: Teenagers) Do Good Things - New York Times]

Yan has performed widely in the United States, Europe and Asia, appearing at Lincoln Center,[http://newstranscript.gmnews.com/News/2003/0122/Bulletin_Board/009.html Bulletin Board Youngsters perform at Alice Tully Hall] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070313001217/http://newstranscript.gmnews.com/News/2003/0122/Bulletin_Board/009.html |date=2007-03-13 }} Carnegie Hall, Steinway Hall, CAMI Hall, Kennedy Center, St. Mark's, the Eastern Music Festival, Niagara International Chamber Music Festival, and the Shaw Festival in Niagara-on-the-Lake, Canada. Solo orchestral engagements include collaborations with the Battleground Symphony, Rowan Chamber and East Brunswick Chamber Orchestras. She has also performed on the Composer's Voice Concert Series{{Cite web|url=http://www.voxnovus.com/composersvoice/history/|title = Composer's Voice Calendar & Concert History}} in New York City as well as participating in the Vox Novus series Fifteen-Minutes-of-Fame project.{{Cite web|url=http://www.voxnovus.com/15_Minutes_of_Fame/featuring/Sophia_Yan/|title = Sophia Yan - Fifteen Minutes of Fame}}{{Cite web|url=http://www.sequenza21.com/calendar/2011/09/september-18-100-pm-composers-voice-concert-celebrating-our-children/|title = Calendar » September 18, 1:00 PM – Composer's Voice Concert – Celebrating Our Children}} She also provides the music for the Lawfare podcast.{{Cite web|url=https://lawfaremedia.org/article/reporters-notebook-covering-hong-kong-protests|title = Reporter's Notebook: Covering the Hong Kong Protests| work=Lawfare |date = 7 October 2014 | last1=Yan | first1=Sophia }}

= Journalism =

In July 2010, Yan started her journalism career as a reporter for Bloomberg News based in Hong Kong and Washington, D.C.{{cite web|url=https://www.bloomberg.com/authors/AP5hEzMFKpo/sophia-yan | title= Articles written by Sophia Yan at Bloomberg.com | website= Bloomberg News | date= 21 December 2012 |access-date= May 6, 2017}}

In 2013, Yan joined CNN. In 2014, as an Asia Business Reporter for CNNMoney, Yan covered the 2014 pro-democracy protests in Hong Kong.

Yan was a Beijing correspondent at CNBC. She covers topics from technology to economics in China and Asia.{{cite web|url=https://www.cnbc.com/sophia-yan/ | title= Sophia Yan at CNBC.com | website= CNBC | date= 27 February 2017 |access-date= May 6, 2017}} As of 2019 she has been working for The Daily Telegraph.{{Cite web |title=The Daily Telegraph |url=https://www.eurotopics.net/en/148815/the-daily-telegraph |access-date=2023-04-24 |website=eurotopics.net |language=en}}{{Cite web |title=Sophia Yan |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/authors/s/sk-so/sophia-yan/ |access-date=2023-04-24 |website=The Telegraph |language=en}}

References

External links

[http://www.sophia-yan.com/ Personal Website]
[http://www.oberlin.edu/con/ Conservatory Website]
[http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?s_site=thnt&f_site=thnt&f_sitename=Home+News+Tribune+%28East+Brunswick%2C+NJ%29&p_theme=gannett&p_product=EBTB&p_action=search&p_field_base-0=&p_text_base-0=sophia+yan+and+piano&p_perpage=10&p_maxdocs=200&p_queryname=700&s_search_type=keyword&p_sort=_rank_%3AD&p_field_date-0=YMD_date&p_params_date-0=date%3AB%2CE&p_text_date-0= Related Newspaper Articles]
[https://www.bloomberg.com/authors/AP5hEzMFKpo/sophia-yan Articles written by Sophia Yan (as journalist) at Bloomberg.com]
[https://www.cnbc.com/sophia-yan/ Biography of Sophia Yan at CNBC.com]

Category:1986 births

Category:Living people

Category:American classical pianists

Category:American women classical pianists

Category:Asian conservatism in the United States

Category:American expatriates in China

Category:American journalists of Chinese descent

Category:American musicians of Chinese descent

Category:American musicians of Taiwanese descent

Category:American women musicians of Chinese descent

Category:American television reporters and correspondents

Category:Musicians from New York (state)