Rolf-Peter Wille
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Born in Brunswick Germany, Rolf-Peter Wille graduated from the Musikhochschule Hannover and received a Doctor of Musical Arts in piano performance from the Manhattan School of Music in 1987. He has appeared as soloist with various orchestras, including the Moscow Philharmonic, Lausanne Chamber Orchestra, and all the Orchestras in Taiwan. He collaborated with conductors such as Vassily Sinaisky, Lawrence Foster, Henry Mazer, Alexander Rudin, Felix Chen etc. As chamber musician he performed with members of the New York Philharmonic, flutist Andras Adorjan, cellists Nathaniel Rosen, Alexander Rudin, Violinists Daniel Heifetz, Ilya Grubert and many others. Wille has taught at the Taipei National University of the Arts since 1987. Wille and his wife, pianist Lina Yeh, have toured and recorded extensively as a piano duo, with albums released on the Philips, PolyGram and Universal labels. Wille and Yeh were awarded the National Cultural Award in 1990 and the Friendship Medal of Diplomacy in 2010. Their 30-year anniversary album (Rolf-Peter Wille and Lina Yeh: 30 Years of Piano Duo) won the Golden Melody Award in 2010 for best performance and best classical album. Photo: Universal Music Chi-He Chou |
