Born in China in 2004, Tingshuo Yang is a pianist, organist, and composer. He studied piano at the Royal College of Music Junior Department from 2012 to 2016 and at the Conservatoire de la Ville de Luxembourg from 2017 until 2021. In 2018 Tingshuo was awarded a music scholarship to Eton College, and since 2023 he has been Organ Scholar at St John’s, where he is studying for a BA degree in music.
Tingshuo achieved his LRSM in piano performance in 2016. In April 2019, he made his solo piano debut with the Luxembourg Philharmonic Orchestra, and the following year he opened the ‘Young Luxembourgish Classical Talents’ recital series in Berlin. In 2021 he was awarded the ‘Diplome de Concert’, and the ‘Prix du Meilleur Laureat’ at the Conservatoire de la Ville de Luxembourg.
His debut recording, J.S. Bach: Clavierübung Part I – Partitas, was released on Luxembourg Classics in June 2024 to critical acclaim. It was chosen as Album of the Week on Radio 100,7, with Luc Boentges praising the recording. Pizzicato described the album as ‘timelessly beautiful’ and ‘spontaneously creative’.
Alongside his achievements as a pianist, Tingshuo has distinguished himself as an organist. He was Highly Commended at the Northern Ireland International Organ Competition in 2023 and 2024, and in 2025 became a Fellow of the Royal College of Organists. He appears regularly as a recitalist, and will appear in venues including St John's Smith Square, London, The Queen's College, Oxford, and Uppsala Cathedral in the 2025-2026 academic year. In addition to playing on upcoming St John’s recordings, Tingshuo has appeared on multiple BBC Radio 3 and Radio 4 broadcasts.
As a composer, Tingshuo has won first prize in the D’Overbroekes Composition Competition and was runner-up in both the RCO Composition Competition and the Homerton College Composition Competition in 2025. He was shortlisted for the BBC/NCEM Young Composers Award in 2024, the Charles Wood Composers’ Competition in 2025, and the Carmack Award in 2026.
Tingshuo has received regular guidance from Geoffrey Govier, Jean Muller, Jenny Stern, Joseph Middleton, Philip Scriven, Colin Walsh, Martin Baker, Claude Lenners, and Raymond Yiu. He has participated in masterclasses with Nathan Laube, Ludgar Lohmann, Katelyn Emerson, and Andrew Dewar. He also worked with David Hill as the organ scholar of the Charles Wood Festival in Armagh in 2023 and 2024.