Yingdi Sun 孙颖迪 (born 1980) is a

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who won First Prize at the prestigious 7th

International Franz Liszt Piano Competition The International Franz Liszt Piano Competition ("Liszt Competition") is an international piano competition. It is a member of the World Federation of International Music Competitions. The Competition is held in Utrecht (city), Utrecht in the Neth ...

, which was held in Utrecht in 2005. By winning the prize he has embarked on a demanding two-year concert tour in the Netherlands and abroad. This tour takes him around the globe and includes, in addition to many concerts in leading Dutch concert halls, performances in France, Belgium, Germany, Finland, Hungary, the Czech Republic, Poland, New Zealand, United Kingdom, Indonesia, Macau, Hong Kong, China, the United States and South Africa. Already on the morning after the Final of the Liszt Competition, Yingdi performed in Amsterdam’s

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with the

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under the baton of

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. In the course of his concert tour, he has played with the Beijing Symphony Orchestra, the Shanghai Opera and Philharmonic Orchestra, the

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and the Czech National Symphony Orchestra. Yingdi is also a very welcome guest in his own country. In November 2005 he was the guest of the Chinese President

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as part of the festivities in honour of the visit of U.S. President

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to China. The Shanghai-born Yingdi Sun was already winning prizes in his native China at an early age, including the Golden Bell Award at the Second National Piano Competition. In 2004, he was awarded a grant from Yamaha, enabling him to give chamber music concerts together with prize winners from the International Paganini Violin Competition and Tchaikovsky International Music Competition. In his own country, he was recently awarded the 'Bao Steel' Education Award and the Special Prize for Artists by Shanghai government. Yingdi Sun studied with Professor Sheng Yi-qi at the Conservatory of Music in Shanghai since 2001 and has participated in the master classes of, amongst others,

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, Xu Zhong, Roberto Carnevale and

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The International Franz Liszt Piano Competition's website
{{DEFAULTSORT:Sun, Yingdi Chinese classical pianists 1980 births Living people International Franz Liszt Piano Competition winners Musicians from Shanghai

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