All who know her and have seen her perform agree that Tianwa Yang, the prodigious young violinist of Beijing origin, knows her way around a Prokofiev concerto. When Hong Kong-based music critic and historian, Oliver Chou heard her performance of the composer’s Violin Concerto No. 2 in G minor, he raved that in her hands the piece was like “a mature craft from a sophisticated master, rather than the work of a mere 21-year-old.” Yang will have the opportunity to deliver Prokofiev’s Violin Concerto No. 1 in stellar fashion at Strathmore on Saturday with the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra led by world-renowned conductor, Maestro Herbig Guenther.

“I worked with her in Detroit and I was very intrigued by her,” Guenther said. “The Prokofiev is very challenging, but she is a player who is absolutely up to the task.”