Following the success of her 2025 concerts, Yi-Jia Susanne Hou appears in Valentine’s Violin Romance works with Camerata Chicago and Drostan Hall this year with performances at Studebaker Theatre Chicago on February 13^th, Gary Church Wheaton on February 14^th and Union Church Hinsdale  on February 15^th. Their programme includes violin masterpieces from Beethoven’s Romance in G and Kreisler’s Liebesleid to Tchaikovsky, Glazunov and Sarasate.

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Violinist Yi-Jia Susanne Hou  returns to South Africa to work with the Johannesburg Philharmonic Orchestra in the Early Spring Season concert. Susanne Hou will perform Wieniawski’s Violin Concerto No 2 in d-minor on 28^th of August under the baton of Mo Daniel Boico. Their concert will be repeated with the Kwazulu-Natal Philharmonic Orchestra in Durban on September the 4^th.

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Yi-Jia Susanne Hou  performs Max Bruch’s Scottish Fantasy Op. 46 in two concerts with the Stockton Symphony  on April 6th & 7th at the Atherton Auditorium in Stockton, California. One of Bruch’s signature works for violin and orchestra, Scottish Fantasy dedicated to the virtuoso violinist Pablo de Sarasate is part of the programme’s musical excursions depicting destinations of wonder, led by the orchestra’s music director Peter Jaffe.

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On 22^nd of November 2022 Yi-Jia Susanne Hou  is playing the iconic Butterfly Lovers Violin Concerto with the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra under the baton of Maestra Tong Chen. The performance takes place at the Orpheum as part of the cultural event Image China East-West Symphonic Concert presenting renowned soloists and featuring Chinese and Canadian classical music .

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Susanne Hou recorded live He Zhanhao’s & Chen Gang’s Butterfly Lovers Violin Concerto with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra at Cadogan Hall in London. She subsequently toured the work with the RPO under the baton of Mo John Nelson in China and Taiwan. Her connection to the piece has been both artistic and personal since her violinist father was chosen to make a premier recording of the concerto in Shanghai.

Clip from Susanne Hou’s concert on tour at NCPA Beijing:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u01Rxq0LARY

Long-postponed by the pandemics, Canadian violinist Yi-Jia Susanne Hou  finally fulfils her invitation by the Folsom Lake Symphony, premier community orchestra in California, to work on a joint project at the start of the new season.  Yi-Jia Susanne Hou performs the Sibelius Violin Concerto under the baton of the orchestra’s music director Peter Jaffe on October 21^st at the Harris Centre for the Arts and she participates in extensive educational activities as part of the orchestra’s wider community mission. For more details see HERE

Yi-Jia Susanne Hou’s recording of the Beethoven Violin Concerto with the London Symphony Orchestra under the baton of Andreas Delfs is launched on takt 1 streaming platform on 16^th December. Playing on 1735 Guarneri Del Gesu violin that belonged to Fritz Kreisler at the time of his writing the cadenza for the Concerto, Yi-Jia Susanne Hou’s performance with the unsurpassed London Symphony Orchestra is a special tribute to a unique instrument and the music it inspired. The launch marks Beethoven’s 251^st birthday.

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Yi-Jia Susanne Hou  returns to Canada to perform Mendelssohn’s Violin Concerto with the Hamilton Philharmonic Orchestra under the baton of the orchestra’s Music Director Gemma New. The live performance takes place on March 19^th 2022 at FirstOntario Concert Hall and it will be also available via online broadcast.

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