Born into a family of violin pedagogue in China, Yakun Liu currently serves as a violinst as well as a violin teacher at the Uni-Art e.V. in Hamburg, Germany. She studied playing violin with Prof. Shaokuan Ma und Prof. Yiyong Zhao at Xi’an Conservatory in China. In Germany, she studied with David-Maria Gramse at Hamburger Conservatory and completed her master’s degree there. She also received Master Classes with Prof. Nachum Erlich in Karlsruhe and with Prof. Hans-Peter Hofmann in Saarbrücken.
“All my professors inspired me to different degree in the professional field. In terms of technical improvement as well as work’s style, they all gave me useful and unforgettable suggestions. For example, good tone quality should be ‘even, accurate and beautiful’; pay attention to the clean tone quality when practicing; use relative relaxation when practice and perform, and so on.
I believe that basic skills are the foundation of all kinds of performance. Music and technique always go together. Even if a player has a good understanding of music, without correct playing technique he still cannot play well. Therefore, I put the most emphasis on the basic skills when teaching students. And I teach students in accordance with their own aptitude. In order to motivate my students, I create opportunities as much
as I can to let them perform and take part in the competitions.
Since I have been teaching students in Germany in the past three years, my students have won several First and Second Prizes, and I have been awarded Best Teacher several times in the international competitions. For example, in the Music & Stars Awards International Competition in 2021, my student won the Gold Star Medal. I am very honoured that my students and I were recognised by the jury.”