Originally from Taipei (Taiwan), Yu-Chien Tseng began playing the violin at the age of five studying with Po-Shan Lin, Ying-Liang Shen, I-Ching Li and C. Nanette Chen in Taiwan.

In 2008 he was admitted to the Curtis Institute of Music (U.S.A.) where he studied with the violinist Ida Kavafian.

At the age of fifteen he won the first prize of the tenth edition of the Pablo Sarasate International Violin Competition and in 2009 the Philadelphia Orchestra Albert M. Greenfield Student Competition (youth section).

In 2006 he won the third prize in the youth section of the Yehudi Menuhin international violin competition and, in 2004, the first prize of the Taiwan National Music competition.

He has performed as a soloist with the Taipei Symphony Orchestra, the Academy of Taiwan Strings, the Taipei Youth Philharmonic Orchestra, the Philadelphia Orchestra in the United States, the Navarre Symphony Orchestra in Spain and the Cross-Strait Peace Symphony Orchestra.

He was also invited to give concerts in Taiwan and Spain.