Chiyan Wong

Chiyan Wong (chin .: 王致仁, born November 13, 1988 in Hong Kong ) is a Chinese pianist .

Life

At the age of six, Wong began taking piano lessons in his hometown. Five years later, he had won several awards at the Hong Kong Schools Music Festival . In 2000 he received a scholarship at the free Chetham's School of Music in Manchester with the British concert pianist and teacher Norma Fisher . In the same year he made his debut as a soloist in Lithuania .

In 2004, at the age of 16, he won the second prize, the audience prize and the press prize at the International Competition for Young Musicians in Enschede ( Netherlands ). In the same year he accepted an invitation to play in front of members of the Dutch royal family. A year later (2005) Wong won a prize at the International Competition for Young Pianists in memory of Vladimir Horowitz in Kiev ( Ukraine ). Also in 2005 he appeared as a soloist with the Chetham's Symphony Orchestra under Garry Walker . In the same year he also won the Junior Award from the Hattori Foundation in London . The following year (2006) Wong received the Entrance Award for the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester to continue his studies with Norma Fisher. In 2007 he received the Bernard Van Zuiden Music Prize of the Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra and in the same year was a finalist in the International Anton G. Rubinstein Piano Competition in Dresden .

In addition to his artistic work, Wong began writing as a specialist author on music and art. Influenced by Ferruccio Busoni and Wassily Kandinsky , he wrote his first major article In a State of Art , which was published in autumn 2009 by the European Piano Teachers' Association . In early 2009 he played as a soloist at the Hong Kong Arts Festival .

Today (2012) Wong lives in London, where, on the recommendation of British pianist Stephen Hough, he is studying with Christopher Elton at the Royal Academy of Music . In addition to his piano studies and his career as a pianist, which has already taken him to several European countries, he is also completing an apprenticeship as a conductor .

At the end of 2011 he won the Jacques Samuel Intercollegiate Piano Competition in London and in 2012 - this is part of the prize - concerts with the London Festival Orchestra in London's Cadogan Hall , in June in the Fazioli Concert Hall in Sacile ( Italy ) and in December 2012 in London's Wigmore Hall .

His current program of solo appearances is preferably the Kreisleriana by Robert Schumann and the piano sonata in B minor and his own paraphrase of the Héxameron Variations by Franz Liszt , but also works by Johann Sebastian Bach , Ludwig van Beethoven and Ferruccio Busoni .

Discography

• Liszt Transfigured. Operatic Fantasies for Piano. Label: Linn 2017

Web links

Commons : Chiyan Wong  - album with pictures, videos and audio files

• Literature by and about Chiyan Wong in the bibliographic database WorldCat
• Falling through the Ropes / Robin Zavou - Chef / Chiyan Wong - pianist / Neil Chase in New York / Gary Pollard - Films. In: Radio Television Hong Kong , Radio December 23, 2011, archived from the original on December 18, 2012 (radio interview). 
• Biography. (No longer available online.) In: stmartin-in-the-fields.org. Formerly in the original (English).  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  
• "World classics on the piano" with Chiyan Wong. In: Remscheider General-Anzeiger . March 21, 2012, archived from the original on February 11, 2013 . 

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Chiyan Wong at FCH. In: Fazioli.com . Archived from the original on May 23, 2012 ; accessed on July 13, 2019 . Chiyan Wong Collects Prestigious Prize. Linn Records, accessed July 12, 2019 .