Yifan Evan, piano

Meet Evan

Evan performs on Show 463.

Yifan Evan Ding (piano), 17, hails from West Roxbury, Massachusetts. A junior at Boston Latin School, he studies piano with Alexander Korsantia and Natalia Harlap. Previously, Evan studied with Fan Li.

As a young pianist, Evan has performed in many venues such as Zankel Hall and Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall, Merkin Hall at Kaufman Music Center, Victor Borge Hall at Scandinavia House, Lincoln Center, and John Knowles Paine Hall at Harvard University. He has won top awards in numerous competitions, including the Chopin International Piano Competition Hartford CT, the Thomas F. Hulbert International Piano Competition, the International Moscow Music Competition, the US- Canadian International Music Competition, the University of Rhode Island Piano Extravaganza!, Enkor International Piano Competition, Glory International Piano Competition, Paderewski International Piano Competition, and the MMTA Bay State Piano Competition. In 2023, Evan had the honor of performing Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 5 “Emperor” as a soloist with the Immaculata Symphony in Pennsylvania. He is also a member of Boston University Tanglewood Institute.

Evan studies violin and viola with Vera Rubin and plays in the New England Conservatory Prep Orchestra. He is a principal violist in his school’s concert string orchestra and participates in the Massachusetts Music Educators Association’s district festivals. Evan enjoys volunteering with his musician friends to share their passion for classical music.

Beyond music, he is passionate about STEM. His recent achievements include winning a National STEM Challenge championship and being recognized as a 2024 Davidson Fellow Laureate, the highest honor of the Davidson Fellows Scholarship program. In his free time, Evan enjoys video editing and is an avid content creator on YouTube, where his channel has garnered tens of thousands of subscribers and millions of views.