Yin Chengzong (Chinese: 殷承宗; pinyin: Yīn Chéngzōng) (born 1941) is a Chinese pianist and composer. Born on the "Piano Island" of Gulangyu in Xiamen, Fujian Province, in the People's Republic of China. Although trained as a classical pianist, he is perhaps best known to the West through the Yellow River Piano Concerto he arranged based on the Yellow River Cantata and performed in many Western theaters since the 1980s. Yin started learning the piano in 1948 when he was seven years old, and gave his first recital at the age of nine. Read more on Last.fm