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He was a finalist in the 1988 Sydney International Piano Competition and won a special prize for the best performance of an Australian composition. [3] [4] He was the featured soloist on the Australian Youth Orchestra's and West Australian Symphony Orchestra's tours of China, Hong Kong and Singapore. [2]
Sin was born in Singapore, as a twin, in 1992. She also has a younger brother (born in 1994). She started reading at age two and stumbled across her first piano in her grandmother's basement at the age of four and a half. [2] Sin was educated at Methodist Girls' School, where she excelled academically, particularly in mathematics and creative ...
In the 1950s, an annual piano-playing competition was founded by the company, to identify promising young piano students. Grotrian-Steinweg sought to expand into the US in the mid-1960s. Steinway & Sons sued to prevent them from using the Steinweg name, resulting in a 1975 decision by the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.
Praised as the "Piano Poet", Cheng Wai (鄭慧) is a pianist and Steinway Artist from Hong Kong. [1] She is a winner of the Hong Kong Young Music Performer Award of the International Year of Youth [2] and voted as one of the Top Ten Outstanding Young Persons by the Junior Chamber International Hong Kong in 2009.
Sydney International Piano Competition (Sydney, Australia) [69] Valencia International Piano Competition Prize Iturbi (Valencia, Spain) [70] Van Cliburn International Piano Competition (Fort Worth, US) [71] World International Piano Competition (Santa Fe, US) [72] Silicon Valley Open Doors International Piano Competition (San Francisco, California)
Steinway & Sons, also known as Steinway (/ ˈ s t aɪ n w eɪ / ⓘ), is a German-American piano company, founded in 1853 in New York City by German piano builder Heinrich Engelhard Steinweg (later known as Henry E. Steinway).
The SSO is part of the Singapore Symphony Group, which also manages the Singapore Symphony Choruses, the Singapore National Youth Orchestra (SNYO), the VCH presents chamber music series, the Singapore International Piano Festival and the biennial National Piano and Violin Competition. It achieved third place in 2021 for Gramophone's Orchestra ...
In 2001 Cheung won First Prize in the Hong Kong regional competition of the Steinway and Sons International Youth Piano Competition. At her first competition in Europe, she claimed First Prize at the 2002 Llangollen International Musical Eisteddfod for Western Instrumental Group under 15 in Wales.