Diyang Mei - About

2018 was really amazing and unforgettable for me. I truly appreciate that I have been chosen by BBT for a fellowship. BBT not only gives me a lot of financial support, but also gives me more confidence and opportunity to grow up. It helps young musicians to find their own way to be real artists. Many thanks to BBT from the bottom of my heart.

Chinese-born Diyang Mei is such a natural chamber music player that he is in constant demand, although his burning ambition also embraces leading the viola sections of top orchestras. After his first appointment to the Munich Philharmonic Orchestra, he soon became co-principal of the Berlin Philharmonic, working there alongside another BBT alumnus, Amihai Grosz, originally of the Jerusalem Quartet.

Still young but with multiple awards and prizes, Diyang’s BBT Fellowship afforded him many practical things for an artist embarking on a professional career. He visited London to make both audio and video recordings for demonstration purposes, had new photographs taken and developed a new website, and under BBT’s auspices he played a showcase concert at an IAMA Conference in Düsseldorf. BBT was also able to help him purchase a new bow, as well as attend masterclasses with Nobuko Imai.

Diyang was supported with a BBT Fellowship between 2018 and 2020.

For a current biography please visit reinicke-artists.com

Photographs by Simon Weir