Kristian Chong

Kristian Chong is an Australian concert pianist, and has performed extensively throughout Australia, the UK, and in China, France, Hong Kong, New Zealand, Taiwan, USA, and Africa.[1]

Early life

His early studies were at the Elder Conservatorium of Music in Adelaide, Australia, where he was accepted at the age of 9 on piano with Noreen Stokes, and violin with Beryl Kimber. He went on to study at the Melbourne Conservatorium of Music under Stephen McIntyre AM, and then the Royal Academy of Music in London with Piers Lane AO and Christopher Elton.

His competition successes included the Symphony Australia Young Performers Award (keyboard) and the Australian National Piano Award.

Professional Activities

Chong has performed extensively throughout Australia and the UK, and in China, France, Hong Kong, New Zealand, Singapore, Taiwan, USA, and Zimbabwe.

His performances and recordings are frequently broadcast on ABC Classic FM and on the MBS network in Australia.

As concerto soloist he has appeared with the Adelaide, Canberra, Melbourne, Queensland, Sydney and Tasmanian Symphony Orchestras, the Australian Doctors Orchestra and orchestras in the UK, New Zealand and China under conductors such as Werner Andreas Albert, Andrey Boreyko, Nicholas Braithwaite, Jessica Cottis, Roy Goodman, Sebastian Lang-Lessing, Nicholas Milton, Benjamin Northey, Tuomas Ollila, Marcus Stenz, Arvo Volmer and Marco Zuccarini.

Concerto highlights have included Rachmaninoff 3rd with the Sydney Symphony, the Rachmaninoff Rhapsody on a theme by Paganini in Beijing, and Britten with the Adelaide Symphony Orchestra. Recent concerto highlights include Rachmaninoff 3rd, Chopin 2nd, Beethoven's Emperor, and Ravel's Left Hand concerti in Melbourne and New Zealand.

Described by The Age as ‘a true chamber musician at work’, Chong is highly sought after with collaborations including tours with the Tinalley and Australian String Quartets, performances with violinists Sophie Rowell, Natsuko Yoshimoto, Elizabeth Layton, cellist Li Wei Qin, flautist Megan Sterling and baritone Teddy Tahu Rhodes, with whom he has recorded with ABC-Classics. Other collaborations include violinists Ilya Konovalov, (concertmaster Israel Philharmonic), Adam Chalabi, Dale Barltrop, and Jack Liebeck, clarinetist Michael Collins and cellist Guy Johnston amongst many others.[2]

Recent festival performances include the Australian Festival of Chamber Music, the Huntington Estate Music Festival for Musica Viva Australia, the Adelaide Festival, Adelaide International Cello Festival, the Xing Hai Festival in Guangzhou, the Port Fairy Spring Music Festival, where Kristian performed the complete Rachmaninoff Preludes, the Mimir Chamber Music Festival and the Bangalow Festival. He also completed a cycle of the complete Beethoven Piano and Violin Sonatas with Yoshimoto and Rowell at the Melbourne Recital Centre.

Kristian in 2011 debuted for ABC-Classics in a disc with baritone Teddy Tahu Rhodes called Serious Songs. He has also recorded the complete Rachmaninoff Preludes for piano for ABC Classic FM in May 2011.

He currently is based in Melbourne, and teaches piano and chamber music at the University of Melbourne.

He is also a 'Friend of Australia' for Tourism Australia.[3]

References

  1. ↑ "Kristian Chong - Pianist". Kristianchong.wix.com. Retrieved 2013-06-08.
  2. ↑ "Kristian Chong - Pianist". Kristian Chong - Pianist. Retrieved 2016-10-28.
  3. ↑ Friends of Australia Reference Booklet (PDF). 2012. Retrieved 2013-06-08.
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