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Canadian pianist Tony Siqi Yun has been awarded the Rheingau Music Pageant’s LOTTO-Förderpreis for 2023. The prize, sponsored by the Hessian lottery firm, comes with 15,000 euros in money.
Germany’s Rheingau Musik Pageant, which kicked off on June 24, is ongoing till September 2, and consists of some 164 live shows unfold over 29 places. Tony was first invited to the Rheingau Pageant in 2022, the place he carried out a live performance that roused a wave of curiosity. That led to the second invitation in 2023. He’ll cap the prize win with a recital on the Fürst von Metternich Corridor, performing a programme of Brahms, Wagner, Beethoven, Busoni and Schumann.
The LOTTO prize has been awarded on the Pageant since 2009, and acknowledges a younger artist on the daybreak of their careers who reveals distinctive promise and potential.
Tony Siqi Yun
There’s little question that Toronto-born Tony Yun matches that standards. In making the award, the jury talked about Yun’s technical brilliance mixed with naturalness, and his youthful vitality.
Yun first catapulted to worldwide consideration in 2019, when he took residence the First Prize and Gold Medal on the inaugural China Worldwide Music Competitors in Beijing on the age of 18. He’d been learning piano for a number of years by that time.
- He began his music training in 2011 on the affiliated center college of the Central Music Conservatory in Beijing;
- Continued his research at Dulwich School Beijing;
- In between competitions and performances, he’s at present learning with Yoheved Kaplinsky and Matti Raekallio on the Juilliard Faculty in New York, the place he’s the recipient of the Jerome L. Greene Fellowship.
Tony can also be no stranger to profitable competitions…
- In 2018, he received the Thomas and Evon Cooper Worldwide Piano Competitors;
- Winner of Paris Play-Direct Academy 2021;
- In 2022, he received two prizes on the twentieth version of the Kissinger KlavierOlymp.
Tony Siqi Yun performs Bach/Busoni: Ich ruf zu dir, Herr Jesu Christ, Chorale Prelude BWV 639 at Vancouver Playhouse Theatre for the Vancouver Recital Society on October 24, 2021.
A performing profession already begun
As he continues his research, Tony Yun has launched a excessive profile performing profession. Tony first met Montréal conductor Yannick Nézet-Séguin in Beijing on the fateful competitors, the place he received first prize. Yun carried out with the conductor main the Philadelphia Orchestra within the ultimate spherical.
Nézet-Séguin reunited with the younger pianist in February 2023 for Yun’s subscription debut with the Philadelphia Orchestra, the place he carried out Schumann’s Piano Concerto.
Tony has additionally carried out with the Cleveland Orchestra, Orchestre de chambre de Paris, the China Philharmonic Orchestra and the TSO, and he made his Canadian debut in a efficiency of Clara Schumann with Montréal’s Orchestre Métropolitain. Tony has carried out solo recitals on the Vancouver Recital Society, the Hamburg Elbphilharmonie, and the Gewandhaus in Leipzig, amongst different main venues.
Subsequent season, he’ll make his subscription debut at Carnegie Corridor with Yannick Nézet-Séguin and Orchestre Métropolitain performing Rachmaninov’s Second Piano Concerto.
Tony Yun will obtain the LOTTO prize on Sunday, August 13 throughout his live performance at Johannisberg Fortress in Rheingau, Germany.
Congratulations — and we doubt will probably be the final time we make that want to Mr. Yun.
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Anya Wassenberg is a Senior Author and Digital Content material Editor at Ludwig Van. She is an skilled freelance author, blogger and writing teacher with OntarioLearn.
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