Hannah Sun

Location:
New York, New York, US
Type:
Artist / Band / Musician
Genre:
Classical
Site(s):
Please visit my Website: http://www.hannahsun.com Thanks!



Hannah Sun, born in 1989, began studying the piano at the age of two in her native China. Her first teacher was her mother, concert pianist Qi Melody He. After she moved to Australia in 1995, she studied with Nehama Patkin, Stephen McIntyre, and Geoffrey Tozer, and performed several concertos with orchestra. Since moving to New York in 2002, she has studied with Phillip Kawin, the late Constance Keene, and Miyoko Lotto in the Manhattan School of Music Pre-college division as a full scholarship student, and currently with Jerome Lowenthal as a scholarship recipient at The Juilliard School.



Hannah was named First Prize Winner in the Second New York Piano Competition in June 2004, presented under the auspices of The Stecher and Horowitz Foundation. As the First Prize Winner, she had the opportunity to concertize in venues up and down the East Coast. Hannah's first concert following the NYPC was performing the Schumann Piano Concerto four weeks later with The Manhattan Chamber Orchestra at New York's Trinity Church, appearing under the baton of Richard Aulden Clark. Hannah's participation in this competition has been viewed nationally in the documentary BEYOND THE PRACTICE ROOM, a behind-the-scenes look at the competition, shown on PBS. Following the competition, she has also appeared several times on the McGraw-Hill Young Artists Showcase hosted by Robert Sherman on WQXR, New York&8217;s Classical Music Radio Station.



Other performances with orchestra have been Gershwin&8217;s Rhapsody in Blue with the Orchestra of Southern Utah under Xun Sun in 2005, Mozart&8217;s Piano Concerto in A Major, K.414 with the LaGuardia Symphony Orchestra in 2007, which she conducted from the piano, and Beethoven&8217;s Piano Concerto No. 4 with the Corda Spirita Chamber Orchestra in Brisbane, Australia the following year, under John Curro.



Hannah has also received numerous scholarships and awards, such as a scholarship to attend the Fontainebleau Summer Music Festival, where she received the Prix Nadia Boulanger, Silver Award from the National Foundation of the Advancement of the Arts, after which she attended the youngARTS week in Miami, Florida, third prize in the Kosciuszko Foundation's Chopin Piano Competition, first prize in the Long Island School Media Association (LISMA) International Music Competition, full scholarships at the International Keyboard Institute and Festival at Mannes College of Music, full scholarship to the International Academy of Music in St. Petersburg, Russia, and grants from the Children's Foundation for the Arts.



Hannah also studied conducting at LaGuardia High School, where she was an instrumental student, and at the Manhattan School of Music Pre-college division. She has conducted the LaGuardia Symphony Orchestra, in concert, in Mozart&8217;s &8220;Magic Flute&8221; Overture and Mozart&8217;s Piano Concerto K414 from the piano.



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