Tiffany Poon
Tiffany Poon | |
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| 潘活活 | |
| Born | 29 December 1996 |
| Nationality | Hong Kong United States |
| Education | Juilliard School Columbia University (BA) |
| Occupation | Pianist |
| Website | tiffanypoon |
Tiffany Poon (born 29 December 1996) is a Hong Kong-born American classical pianist and vlogger, residing in New York City.
Career
[edit]Born in Hong Kong, Poon began taking piano lessons at the age of four.[1] At nine, she moved to New York to study at the Juilliard School Pre-College Division for eight years with a full scholarship, under the guidance of Yoheved Kaplinsky. She studied at Calhoun School for high school, where she graduated in 2014.[2] She continued her studies at the Columbia University / Juilliard School exchange program with Emanuel Ax and Joseph Kalichstein.[1] In May 2018, she graduated from Columbia University as a John Jay Scholar with a Bachelor of Arts in philosophy.[3]
Poon made her concerto debut at the age of 10, and has appeared with orchestras and in recital throughout the United States, Canada, Europe, Australia and China.[4] Among the venues where she has performed are Carnegie Hall, Steinway Hall 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.[5]
Poon has been active on social media since 2017 and expanded into video blogging when the COVID-19 pandemic ended live performances.[6][7] As of May 2021, Poon's YouTube channel had 290,000 subscribers: "Of course, it took years. I only started making vlogs because I thought that classical music lacked human elements. Composers are dead and current musicians don't really talk about themselves as humans."[1]
In 2020, Poon founded Together with Classical, a nonprofit charity intended to unite people and communities together by promoting classical music, and to support and fund classical music education programs and opportunities.[6][8]
It's kind of sad that classical music is said to be dying, [but] it feels like I'm making an impact on the world, and I'd like to continue inspiring more generations to appreciate classical music because I've been getting more and more messages from my audience that they were inspired to play because of me. And that means a lot to me, because it means that I'm doing something significant and worth my time.[3]
— Tiffany Poon
Awards
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- 2012: First Prize and Best Performance of Concerto Award, 8th Moscow International Frederic Chopin Competition for Young Pianists[9]
- 2013: Kaufman Music Center International Youth Piano Competition[10]
- 2014: National YoungArts Winner in the United States[11]
- 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 in Warsaw, Poland
- 2016: First Prize, Manhattan International Music Competition[12]
- 2016: Third Prize, 17th International Robert Schumann Competition, Germany[13]
- 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 festival, Germany
- 2019: Young Artist Award, Hessen Agency at the Rheingau Music Festival.[9][14]
Discography
[edit]- Natural Beauty - J.S. Bach, Haydn, Chopin, Liszt, Debussy, Kawai Edition, 2014[14]
- Edition Klavier-Festival Ruhr Vol. 38: Festivaldebüts 2019[15]
- The Dvorak Album - with Jan Vogler, Kevin Zhu, Chad Hoopes, Matthew Lipman and Juho Pohjonen, Sony Classical, 2022[16]
- Diaries | Schumann - Robert Schumann, PENTATONE, 2024[17]
References
[edit]- ^ a b c Wise, Brian (May 1, 2021). "New Artist of the Month: Tiffany Poon". Musical America. Retrieved May 4, 2021.
- ^ "News Post : A Concert to Celebrate Steve Nelson, Jan. 31". Calhoun School. January 27, 2017. Retrieved December 17, 2021.
- ^ a b "Senior Profile: Tiffany Poon, CC '18". Columbia Daily Spectator. 2018. Retrieved January 28, 2021.
- ^ "Tiffany Poon - Piano - Biography". Young Artist Foundation. Retrieved May 5, 2021.
- ^ "Biography | Tiffany Poon". Retrieved January 29, 2021.
- ^ a b Blackmore-Dobbyn, Andrew (November 25, 2020). "Tiffany Poon: "Music is not about music, it's about life"". Bachtrack. Retrieved May 5, 2021.
- ^ "Soundboard : Tiffany Poon : 'What If You Put Back The Human?'". Steinway & Sons (Podcast). July 23, 2021. Retrieved April 29, 2023.
- ^ "What We Do". togetherwithclassical.org. Retrieved April 29, 2023.
- ^ a b "Tiffany Poon Piano Recital". Brown University. Archived from the original on January 27, 2021. Retrieved February 8, 2021.
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- "Kaufman Music Center's 2013 International Youth Piano Competition". Kaufman Music Center. 2013. Retrieved April 29, 2023.
Tiffany Poon, Hong Kong, 16 years old, First Prize, Senior Division and The Faust Harrison Pianos award for Best Performance of Romantic piece
- "Tiffany Poon (performance)". Lucy Moses School at Kaufman Music Center. Retrieved April 29, 2023 – via YouTube.
- "Kaufman Music Center's 2013 International Youth Piano Competition". Kaufman Music Center. 2013. Retrieved April 29, 2023.
- ^ "2014 YoungArts Winners" (PDF). YoungArts. 2014. Retrieved April 29, 2023.
Honorable Mentions in Music : Tiffany Poon, Piano, The Calhoun School, New York, New York
- ^ "First Manhattan International Music Competition (2016)". manhattancompetition.com. 2016. Retrieved April 29, 2023.
- ^ "Henriette Gödde und André Baleiro gewinnen Robert-Schumann-Wettbewerb | nmz - neue musikzeitung". www.nmz.de (in German). June 20, 2016. Retrieved March 9, 2024.
- ^ a b "Tiffany Poon (Bio)". Top of the World International Piano Competition. Archived from the original on February 14, 2021. Retrieved February 8, 2021.
- ^ "Edition Klavier-Festival Ruhr Vol. 38 – 3 CDs: Festivaldebüts 2019". Klavier-Festival Ruhr (in German). Retrieved March 9, 2024.
- ^ Ueno, Azusa (August 8, 2022). "Review: Dvořák - Chamber Works - Jan Vogler". The Classic Review. Retrieved August 25, 2022.
- ^ Pentatone, Marketing (November 23, 2023). "Welcome to 'Diaries | Schumann': The Enchanting World of Pianist Tiffany Poon". Pentatone. Retrieved November 23, 2023.
External links
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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 College (New York) alumni
- 21st-century American women
- American YouTubers
- Music YouTubers