Yun Tang, the leading Concert Soloist from China, has been a member of the Los Angeles Philharmonic laphil.org since 1986.

Born in 1950 in Shanghai, China, Yun Tang began to play piano at age six and started the violin at the Shanghai Conservatory of Music when she was nine. She made her first public solo debut at eleven in the Shanghai Spring Music Festival. At age nineteen, she was appointed as the concertmaster for the Shanghai-Beijing Opera Orchestra. She has since won numerous top awards in nationwide music competitions. She was honored as special resident soloist for the Shanghai Symphony Orchestra and the Beijing Central Philharmonic Orchestra. Her brilliant talent has made her the nation's most recognized concert soloist in China. She has given many solo concerts and recitals all over China and has appeared in more than a hundred special television and radio broadcasting showcase performances. She has also given master classes at conservatories and music schools all over China during the years of her concert tours. All her recordings were the best-selling in China. She was in the award-winning documentary film "From Mao to Mozart" with Isaac Stern.

In 1980, She traveled to America and Europe and studied violin with Ivan Galamian in New York; Yehudi Menuhin and Helen Dowling in London.

Yun Tang made her western debut with the Zurich Chamber Orchestra at the 1980 Gstaad Festival. She played Paganini Concerto No.1 with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra in the Royal Festival Hall in 1982 as her first solo concert debut in London, a performance that received a public ovation and critical acclaim. Since then, with Harold Holt Ltd. as her management agent, Yun Tang has played in concerts and recitals in Barbican Hall, Queen Elizabeth Hall, and Wigmore Hall. She has also played in many return concerts throughout the UK, as well as in Germany, Norway, Italy, Lisbon, Switzerland, America, Hong Kong, and Singapore, and has made multiple recordings for radio and television. Since 1996, she has given solo concerts in China and master classes at the Shanghai Conservatory. In 2002, she was appointed as principal concertmaster for Asia America Symphony Orchestra.

Her videotape "Violin Tutor" was published in 1995, and the republished VCD version of 2003 is one of the educational tutoring resources used by the Children's Violin Study Programs (best-selling in China). Her CD of encore solo pieces was published in 1998, and her "Quick Method for Violin (Intermediate)" DVD was published March 2007. Her newly composed "Yun Tang Violin Method" is the latest cartoon violin educational web program for children from ages 4 - 9.