Menuhin winner scores Avery Fisher grant

The Chinese-born, Boston-based Angelo Xiang Yu, 2010 winner of the Menuhin Competition for young violinists, is one of this year’s recipients of $25,000 career grants from the Avery Fisher Artist Program, joining the JACK Quartet, pianist Henry Kramer and the piano duo of Christina and Michelle Naughton:

http://www.thestrad.com/news/quartet-and-violinist-among-avery-fisher-career-grant-recipients/8719.article

The next rounds of the Menuhin Competition will be held in Richmond from May 14 to 20, 2020. Winners will perform with the Richmond Symphony and the Sphinx Virtuosi in the finale of the symphony’s Masterworks series on May 23 and 24.