Bion Tsang

Bion Tsang’s career highlights include many great stages and studios.  He is seen on the PBS Great Performances “Now Hear This” series with host Scott Yoo, including “Beethoven’s Ghost” (S2 E4) and “Schumann: Genius and Madness” (S4 E2), and earned a Grammy nomination for his performance on the PBS special A Company of Voices: Conspirare in Concert (Harmonia Mundi).  With Anton Nel, he recorded the only classical music concert ever performed on the Austin City Limits stage for Austin PBS’ Arts in Context.

Since his debut at age eleven with Zubin Mehta and the New York Philharmonic, including a broadcast on the CBS Festival of Lively Arts television series, Tsang has performed with the Mexico City, Moscow, Busan and Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestras, the Atlanta, Pacific, Civic, American and National Symphony Orchestras, the Hollywood Bowl Orchestra, the Saint Paul and Stuttgart Chamber Orchestras, the Seoul Sinfonietta and the Taiwan National Orchestra.  As a chamber musician, he has been a guest with the Chamber Music Societies of Boston, Brooklyn, Fort Worth, Seattle and Vancouver, Accordo, Chamber Music International, Da Camera of Houston, Camerata Pacifica and Bargemusic, and performed at the Bard Festival, Bravo! Colorado, Domaine Forget de Charlevoix, Festival Mozaic, Le Musicimes Courcheval, Marlboro Music, Music in the Vineyards, Orford Musique and the Laurel Festival of the Arts, where he served as artistic director for ten years.

Tsang’s discography includes three live recordings: Beethoven: Sonatas and Variations for Cello and Piano (Artek), Brahms: Cello Sonatas and Four Hungarian Dances (Artek), and Bion Tsang: Live at Jordan Hall (BHM).  He released The Blue Rock Sessions (BHM), featuring his own virtuoso cello transcriptions, followed by Dvořák/Enescu Cello Concertos (Sony) with Scott Yoo and the Royal Scottish National Orchestra, Bach Solo Cello Suites (Sony), and Cantabile (Universal), again with Yoo and the RSNO.
 

Applied Cello

MUS 115D
String Instrument Fundamentals 

Cantabile
Bion Tsang, Scott Yoo, Royal Sottish National Orchestra
2023 • Universal Music Group

Bach Cello Suites
Bion Tsang
2021 • Sony Classical

Dvořák/Enescu Cello Concertos
Bion Tsang, Scott Yoo, Royal Scottish National Orchestra
2019 • Sony Classical

Live at Jordan Hall
Bion Tsang & Adam Nieman
2018 • BHM Media Productions

The Blue Rock Sessions
Bion Tsang & Cecilia Lo-Chien Kao
2017 * BHM Media Productions

PR Newswire
Romantic Works of Tchaikovsky, Schumann and Casals Sing in the Hands of Cellist Bion Tsang in Cantabile

Sony Classical Releases Bion Tsang, Bach Cello Suites on Rare Stradivarius

Bion Tsang explores the lines between Dvořák and Enescu Cello Concertos

Playful Virtuoso Miniatures in Bion Tsang: The Blue Rock Sessions

PBS.org
Bion returns to PBS Great Performances Now Hear This in “Schumann: Genius and Madness”

Bion appears on PBS Great Performances Now Hear This in "Beethoven's Ghost"

The Cello Sherpa Podcast
"The Precocious Trailblazer," an interview with Joel Dallow about his new recording Cantabile and more
 

Harmonious World Podcast 
Interview with Hillary Robertson about his recent recording of the Bach Suites and more