Tiffany Poon (born 29 December 1996, Hong Kong) is a
Hong Kong
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-born American YouTuber and classical
pianist
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, currently residing in
New York City
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.
Career
Poon began taking piano lessons at the age of 4.
At 9, she moved to
New York
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to study at the
Juilliard School
The Juilliard School ( ) is a private performing arts conservatory in New York City. Established in 1905, the school trains about 850 undergraduate and graduate students in dance, drama, and music. It is widely regarded as one of the most el ...
Pre-College Division for eight years with a full scholarship, under the guidance of
Yoheved Kaplinsky Yoheved "Veda" Kaplinsky (born March 23, 1947 in Tel Aviv, British Mandate of Palestine ow Israel">Israel.html" ;"title="ow Israel">ow Israel is a lecturer and professor of music at the Juilliard School. She heads the Pre-College department at Juil ...
. She also studied at
The Calhoun School
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for high school, where she graduated in 2014. She continued her studies at the Columbia University / Juilliard School exchange program with
Emanuel Ax
Emanuel "Manny" Ax (born 8 June 1949) is a Grammy-winning American classical pianist. He is a teacher in the Juilliard School.
Early life
Ax was born to a Polish-Jewish family in Lviv, Ukraine, (in what was then the Soviet Union) to Joachim and ...
and
Joseph Kalichstein
Joseph Kalichstein (15 January 1946 – 31 March 2022) was an American classical pianist who performed in the concerto, solo recital and chamber music repertoire, the latter mainly with Jaime Laredo and Sharon Robinson (cellist), Sharon Robinson ...
.
In May 2018, she graduated from Columbia University as a John Jay Scholar with a Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy.
Poon made her concerto debut at the age of 10, and has appeared with orchestras and in recital throughout the
United States
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,
Canada
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,
Europe
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,
Australia
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and
China
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. Among the venues where she has performed are
Carnegie Hall
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,
Steinway Hall
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in New York City, and Sala Mozart in Bologna, Italy. She has appeared as a soloist with the Plainfield Symphony Orchestra, Fort Smith Symphony Orchestra, ProMusica Chamber Orchestra, and Moscow Chamber Orchestra of Pavel Slobodkin Centre.
Poon has been active on social media since 2017.
In 2020, she founded Together with Classical, a nonprofit charity to unite people and communities by promoting classical music, and to support and fund classical music education programs and opportunities.
Awards
* 2012: First Prize and Best Performance of Concerto Award, 8th Moscow International Frederic Chopin Competition for Young Pianists
* 2013: Kaufman Music Center International Youth Piano Competition
* 2014:
National YoungArts Winner in the United States
* 2014: First Prize, Juilliard Pre-College Concerto Competition
* 2014: Second Prize, 10th Chopin Golden Ring International Competition, Slovenia
* 2015: Participant of the
XVII International Chopin Piano Competition
The XVII International Chopin Piano Competition ( pl, XVII Międzynarodowy Konkurs Pianistyczny im. Fryderyka Chopina) was held in Warsaw on April 13–24, 2015 (preliminary round) and October 1–23, 2015 (main competition and concerts). Prize w ...
in
Warsaw
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,
Poland
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* 2016: First Prize, Manhattan International Music Competition
* 2016: Third Prize, 17th International Robert Schumann Competition, Germany
* 2016: Third Prize, “Debut at the Berlin Philharmonic Hall” International Concerto Competition
* 2017: Second prize,
Walter W. Naumburg Foundation International Competition
* 2019: Second Place, KlavierOlymp of the
Kissinger Sommer
The Kissinger Sommer is a classical music festival held every year in the summer in the city of Bad Kissingen in Bavaria, Southern Germany.
History
The festival was founded in 1986. At the beginning the focus of the festival was on the improvem ...
festival, Germany
* 2019: Young Artist Award, Hessen Agency at the
Rheingau Music Festival.
Discography
* Natural Beauty - J.S. Bach, Haydn, Chopin, Liszt, Debussy, Kawai Edition, 2014
* The Dvorak Album - with
,
Kevin Zhu, Chad Hoopes, Matthew Lipman and Juho Pohjonen,
Sony Classical
Sony Classical is an American record label founded in 1924 as Columbia Masterworks Records, a subsidiary of Columbia Records. In 1980, the Columbia Masterworks label was renamed as CBS Masterworks Records. The CBS Records Group was acquired by S ...
, 2022
References
External links
Official website
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1996 births
Living people
21st-century classical pianists
American classical musicians of Chinese descent
American classical pianists
American women pianists
Chinese classical pianists
Chinese women pianists
Juilliard School alumni
Columbia University alumni
21st-century American women
American YouTubers
Music YouTubers