Rachel Cheung

Wai-Ching Rachel Cheung (張緯晴) is a young classical pianist born on 27 September 1991 in Hong Kong.[1] She has won numerous prizes and awards in Hong Kong and overseas and performs regularly in Europe and America.[2][3]

Education

Currently in her senior year of the Bachelor in Music Degree at The Hong Kong Academy of Performing Arts, Rachel started piano lessons at the age of four and was later admitted to the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts as a junior student studying under Professor Eleanor Wong, Artist-in-Residence and Senior Lecturer.[2] She is currently a bachelor degree student studying with Professor Eleanor Wong at the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts on a full scholarship from the Robert H. N. Ho Family Foundation.

Awards

In 2001 she 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 the First Prize at the 2002 Llangollen International Musical Eisteddfod in Wales. In May 2003, Rachel won the First Prize at the “International Competition for Young Pianists in Memory of Vladimir Horowitz” in the Ukraine. Apart from winning the Gold Medal, she was also awarded three special prizes from the jury including the prize for the “Most Outstanding Concerto Performance”. In America in June 2004, she won the First Prize and a ‘Peer Jury Prize’ for the most popular finalist at the 2004 Gina Bachauer International Junior Piano Competition in Salt Lake City. In 2008, she won the second prize at the Alessandro Casagrande International Piano Competition.[2] In September, 2009 Rachel won the fifth prize at the Leeds International Pianoforte Competition, the best result a Hong Kong pianist has ever achieved in this prestigious competition. She was also a semi-finalist at the 16th International Fryderyk Chopin Piano Competition in Warsaw 2010.

Notes

  1. ↑ http://en.chopin.nifc.pl/chopin/persons/detail/bio/yes/page/4/id/7311
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 "A little maestro amazes SZ music lovers". News Guandong. 2004. Retrieved 2007-04-24.
  3. ↑ Chang Tou Liang (2006). "Rachel Cheung Piano Recital 14/12/06 - The Love of Music Festival". Concert Review. The Flying Inkpot. Retrieved 2007-08-03.

References

http://www.miamipianofest.com/press/pr2005_cheung_naplesdailynews.html

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