Yingdi Sun,
First Prize winner at the 7th International Franz Liszt Piano
Competition
Yingdi Sun (b. 1980) won First Prize at the prestigious 7th International Franz Liszt Piano Competition, which was held in Utrecht in 2005. By winning the prize he embarked on a demanding three-year concert tour in the Netherlands and abroad. This tour has taken him around the globe and included, in addition to many concerts in leading Dutch concert halls, performances in France, Belgium, Germany, Finland, Hungary, the Czech Republic, Poland, Russia, United Kingdom, Indonesia, New Zealand, 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
Concertgebouw with the Netherlands Radio Symphony
Orchestra under the baton of Jean-Bernard Pommier.
In the course of his concert tour, he has played
with the Beijing Symphony Orchestra, the Shanghai
Opera and Philharmonic Orchestra, the Rotterdam
Philharmonic 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 HU Jintao as part of the
festivities in honour of the visit of U.S. President
George Bush to China.
Yingdi played at the Xiamen
International Piano Festival in August of the same
year. He subsequently performed
with the Conservatory of Shanghai Orchestra at
several concerts in Germany. He has played together with the two winners of the
Weimar and Budapest Liszt Competitions in Utrecht,
Weimar, Budapest and Paris in October and in 2007 Yingdi went on tour through Europe and the
United States of America with Augustin Hadelich,
Gold Medalist of the Indianapolis Violin
Competition.
Recent performances include The
Macao Orchestra, the Shanghai Opera House Orchestra under Zoltán Kocsis,
the Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra under Edo de Waart and
l’Orchestre
Philharmonique de Radio France
with
Myung-Whun Chung.
In September 2008, Yingdi will make his debut in London's Wigmore Hall,
followed by concerts and a CD recording in Europe.
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 also 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 and has participated in the
master classes of, amongst others, Philippe Entremont, Xu Zhong and
Dr. Leslie Howard.
