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Xiong Yin

Cello

　　Born in China into a family of musicians, twenty-year-old cellist Xiong Yin enjoyed a rich life studying the cello with her parents from an early age. At the age of nine, Xiong Yin entered the primary school, and subsequently continued in the middle school affiliated to the Shanghai Conservatory.

　　In August 2000, Xiong Yin won the Second Prize and the Best Performance Award in the Youth Division of the 4 th National Cello Competition of China. She was admitted the following year to the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts, where she studies the cello with Professor Ray Wang. 

　　While studying at the Academy, Xiong Yin won the 5th Prize in the 4th International Tchaikovsky Competition for Young musicians in 2002 and was winner of the Canton International Summer Music Academy's (CISMA) Concerto Competition in 2005. She has also been awarded several major scholarships, including the Society of the Academy for Performing Arts Non-Local Scholarship, the Hong Kong Bank Foundation Hong Kong-Mainland Exchange Scholarship and the Duchess of Kent International Scholarship.  

　　Xiong Yin has performed cello concertos with the Academy Symphony Orchestra and the Xiamen Symphony Orchestra. In 2006, she performed under the baton of Maestro Edo de Waart, it was her debut with the joint Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra and Academy Symphony Orchestra. During the same year, Xiong Yin was chosen to be a member of the Pacific Music Festival in Japan, and also she was the principal cellist of the orchestra.