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Ning Feng

Ning Feng is recognised internationally as an artist of great lyricism, innate musicality and stunning virtuosity; “his silvery tonal purity, immaculate intonation and gently beguiling musicality have a way of making most other players sound decidedly effortful by comparison” (BBC Music Magazine). He has performed across the globe with orchestras such as the New York Philharmonic, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra, and in recital and chamber concerts in some of the most important international series and festivals. The Washington Post has described him as "a wonderful player with a creamy, easy tone and an emotional honesty” and Gramophone said of his Brahms Sonatas recording that "[his] tone is simply ravishing, even when it soars into the stratosphere…”

Highlights of his 2026-27 season include appearances with the London Philharmonic Orchestra, Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, Auckland Philharmonia, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic, Kammerakademie Potsdam, Ensemble del Arte, and recitals at the Concertgebouw, Wigmore Hall, Premiere Performances Hong Kong, Melbourne Recital Centre and Ukaria Cultural Centre. He will also perform again at Z+ Festival in Shanghai, Dresden Music Festival, Cambridge Music Festival, Beirut Festival, and for the Madrid Juan March Foundation. This season, he also holds the title of Artist in Residence for the Chengdu Symphony Orchestra.

In recent seasons Ning Feng has performed with the Los Angeles Philharmonic, Seattle Symphony, National Symphony and Minnesota Orchestras in the US, and in Europe with the Bavarian Radio Symphony, Frankfurt Radio Symphony, Helsinki Philharmonic, Berlin Konzerthaus Orchestra, The Hallé, Vienna Radio Symphony, National Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra and Seoul Philharmonic Orchestra. He has also performed many times with the Hong Kong Philharmonic, with whom he has toured Asia, Europe and Australia with Jaap van Zweden.   In China, Ning is held in the highest regard, appearing with all the major Chinese orchestras, in recital and with visiting orchestras such as the Budapest Festival Orchestra with Iván Fischer. In 20/21 he was Artist-in-Residence with the Shanghai Symphony Orchestra and in 23/24 he was the Artist-in-Residence at the NCPA Beijing when he performed Mozart’s 5 Violin Concerti as well as the complete solo Sonatas and Partitas of Bach.  Through his chamber work, Ning Feng has collaborated with many other highly-regarded artists including Yang Xuefei, Daniel Müller-Schott, Nicholas Angelich, Igor Levit and in trio concerts with Nelson Goerner and Edgar Moreau.

Ning records for Channel Classics. His recording of Bach’s complete solo works for violin was hailed by Gramophone as “unlike anyone else’s… it’s the illusion of a freewheeling conversation projected from within." His discography also includes concerti by Elgar and Tchaikovsky, works for violin and orchestra by Bruch, Sarasate, Lalo, Ravel and others, the 24 Paganini Caprices and the complete Brahms Sonatas with Zee Zee, and Brahms and Goldmark Violin Concertos with Konzerthausorchester Berlin and Antony Hermus. Most recently, he recorded the complete Mozart Violin Concertos, play/directing the Kammerakademie Potsdam with his own cadenzas released on a 2-CD album in June 2026.

Born in Chengdu, China, Ning Feng studied at the Sichuan Conservatory of Music with Weimin Hu, the Hanns Eisler School of Music (Berlin) with Antje Weithaas and the Royal Academy of Music (London) with Hu Kun. He was First Prize winner of both the 2005 Michael Hill International Violin Competition (New Zealand) and 2006 International Paganini Competition. Ning Feng plays the 1710 Stradivari violin known as the ‘Vieuxtemps Hauser’, by kind arrangement with Premiere Performances of Hong Kong, and plays on strings by Thomastik-Infeld, Vienna. He lives in Berlin and is a Violin Professor at the Hanns Eisler Hochschule and also holds the position of International Chair of Violin at the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester, Artistic Director of the Chamber Music Academy at Zhejiang Conservatory of Music and Vice-Dean of the Violin Institute at Sichuan Conservatory of Music.