Sophia Yan
Sophia Yan (嚴倩君, pinyin: Yán Qiànjūn, b. October 8, 1986) born in Queens, New York, is an American classical pianist.
Yan is prizewinner of the International Concert Alliance Competition and a laureate of the International Young Artist Piano Competition in Washington, D.C. In addition, she is a two-time winner of the Music Teachers National Association Competition (Eastern, NJ), and prize-winning alumnus of the 2004 New York Piano Competition. Her awards include four-time First Prize winner of the Steinway Society Competition,[1] First Place in the Battleground Symphony Concerto Competition,[2] Grand Prize in the Bookstaber Memorial Piano Competition,[3] First Place in the NJMTA Scholarship Competition [4] and Grand Prize in the Goldblatt Scholarship Competition.
As Neil Genzlinger of The New York Times describes, when Yan plays “the music literally pulls her off the piano bench; she ranges up and down the keyboard so quickly and with such ferocity that mere sitting will not do.”[5]
Yan has performed widely in the United States, Europe and Asia, appearing at Lincoln Center,[6] Carnegie Hall, Steinway Hall, CAMI Hall, Kennedy Center, St. Mark's, the Eastern Music Festival, Niagara International Chamber Music Festival, and the Shaw Festival in Niagara-on-the-Lake, Canada. Solo orchestral engagements include collaborations with the Battleground Symphony,[2] Rowan Chamber and East Brunswick Chamber Orchestras. She has also performed on the Composer's Voice Concert Series[7] in New York City as well as participating in the Vox Novus series Fifteen-Minutes-of-Fame project.[8][9]
Notes and references
- ↑ Steinway Society Scholarship Winners 2004
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Manalapan symphony to play spring concert BY DAVE BENJAMIN Staff Writer
- ↑ Joseph Israel Bookstaber Piano Competition
- ↑ njmta summer 2004
- ↑ JERSEY; When Bad People (Translation: Teenagers) Do Good Things - New York Times
- ↑ Bulletin Board Youngsters perform at Alice Tully Hall
- ↑ http://www.voxnovus.com/composersvoice/history/
- ↑ http://www.voxnovus.com/15_Minutes_of_Fame/featuring/Sophia_Yan/
- ↑ http://www.sequenza21.com/calendar/2011/09/september-18-100-pm-composers-voice-concert-celebrating-our-children/