Tony Siqi Yun, piano
Hayes Piano Series
Tony Siqi Yun
Sunday, October 27, 2024 / 2:00 p.m.
Kennedy Center Terrace Theater
“Expressive, and with his own distinct voice, yet elegant and poised. A true poet.” – Pianist Magazine
Canadian-born pianist Tony Siqi Yun, Gold Medalist at the First China International Music Competition (2019) and awarded the Rheingau Music Festival’s 2023 Lotto-Förderpreis, is quickly becoming a sought-after soloist and recitalist, performing with the Cleveland Orchestra, Toronto Symphony, Orchestre de Chambre de Paris, and Shanghai Symphony Orchestra, and collaborating frequently with Yannick Nezet-Seguin, among others. He makes his Washington Performing Arts Hayes Piano Series debut with a varied recital including Liszt’s arrangement of Wagner’s “Isolde’s Liebestod” from Tristan und Isolde, Schumann’s Symphonic Études op. 13, Beethoven’s beloved “Appassionata” sonata, and Brahms’s Theme with Variations in D minor, op. 18b—a work transcribed for Clara Schumann.
This performance is an external rental presented in coordination with the Kennedy Center Campus Rentals Office and is not produced by the Kennedy Center.
More about the Artist
The Canadian-born pianist Tony Siqi Yun, Gold Medalist at the First China International Music Competition (2019) and awarded the Rheingau Music Festival’s 2023 Lotto-Förderpreis, is quickly becoming a sought-after soloist and recitalist.
During the 2022-23 season, he made his highly-acclaimed subscription debut with the Philadelphia Orchestra under the baton of Yannick Nézet-Séguin, and in 2023-2024, joined Nézet-Séguin on a US Tour with Orchestre Metropolitain, including an appearance at Carnegie Hall. Other recent appearances include the Cleveland Orchestra, Toronto, New Jersey, Shanghai, and Edmonton Symphonies, Colorado Music Festival, Aspen Festival, Vail Dance Festival, Buffalo, Rhode Island, and Hamilton (ON) Philharmonics, Orchestre de Chambre de Paris, and American Ballet Theatre’s 2023 Fall Gala at Lincoln Center.
He is a recipient of the Jerome L. Greene Fellowship at the Juilliard School where he studies with Professors Yoheved Kaplinsky and Matti Raekallio.
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