For upcoming and past performances of Yuanfan's music, please visit the Concerts page.

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Hailed by Fiona Maddocks in The Observer for his ‘soulful poignant’ music, Yuanfan’s compositional oeuvre is wide-ranging and all-encompassing, demonstrating his versatility and broad musical interests, from solo piano music to chamber music; from film scores to pop songs, all the way to four full-scale piano concertos. His Piano Concerto No. 4 ‘Ode to the Jing River’ (2024) was premiered in May 2024 with the Orchestra of Opera North at Wakefield Cathedral, with himself as the soloist, conducted by Stephen Threlfall. This concerto was given its Manchester premiere at Stoller Hall in October 2024, with Manchester Camerata conducted by Guy Walker.

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In 2022, Yuanfan’s Piano Concerto No. 3 in Five Movements (2022) and solo piano piece Petite Partita won 1st Prize and Gold Medal of the Rachmaninoff International Music Competition – composition category. October 2022 saw a concert at St John’s Smith Square in London devoted almost entirely to his own music, featuring the Berlin Metropolitan Orchestra, and including the world premiere of selections from an earlier, shorter version Piano Concerto No. 4, as well as movements from his Piano Concerto No. 3, some solo piano music and songs.

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Yuanfan’s Piano Concerto No. 1 ‘The Wilderness’, written at the age of seventeen, was premiered in Qianjiang, China and was subsequently performed in Manchester, London, Paris and Wuhan. In 2017 this concerto was chosen for substantial funding by the China National Arts Fund and subsequently funded eight public performances with the China National Orchestra of Theatre & Dance throughout several cities in China between 2017-2019. In September 2019, Yuanfan’s Piano Concerto No. 2 ‘The Peony Pavilion’ was premiered at the Greenwood Theatre in London with the Hornton Symphony Orchestra, with himself as the soloist.

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His earliest works include a ‘Fantasy in G’ for piano, which was broadcast on BBC Two in 2007 and 2008, and his arrangement of ‘Scarborough Fair’ was shown on BBC Four in 2010. His piece ‘Waves’ won the Overall Award in the European Piano Teachers Association UK Composition Competition 2011, and was also one of the winners in the BBC Proms Young Composers Competition 2011. His ‘Haunted Bell’ won first prize in the Golden Key International Piano Composition Competition in 2012, and it was broadcast on BBC Four and BBC Radio Three. He was a finalist in the National Centre for Early Music Composers’ Award 2013, where his piece ‘Crushed Suites’ was premiered and recorded by the leading early music ensemble Florilegium. In 2016, his ‘Silhouettes’ for small ensemble and ‘axis’ for violin and piano were premiered in London, the latter of which was a prize-winner at the Royal Academy’s Alan Bush Composition Competition 2016.

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Yuanfan’s debut album Watercolour featuring an eclectic range of solo piano music alongside three of his own compositions was released on Orchid Classics to critical acclaim, including 4* from International Piano Magazine.