Joy of Music Festival 2015, Chopin, Piano, Guitar, Hong Kong, Classic Music   Joy of Music Festival 2015, Chopin, Piano, Guitar, Hong Kong, Classic Music
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The “YOUNG TALENT” Series Artists

Participating artists in alphabetical order

 
   
Grace CHEUNG, Man-Ting (piano)  
Tim YEUNG (piano)  
Elvis LI, Changru (piano)  
LI, Muxin (guitar)  
Alex MAK, Kwan Yui (piano)  
Jane LEUNG (piano)  
Cindy ZHANG, Junyu (piano)  
   

Joy of Music 2015 ArtistGrace CHEUNG, Man-Ting (piano)
Grace Cheung, aged 9, was first introduced to the piano at the age of four, being taught by Ms Eva Lue. At age six, she was admitted to the Pre-Junior Music Programme of HKAPA, continuing being taught by Ms. Lue until earlier this year when Grace has enrolled for the Junior Music Programme of the HKAPA and is now being taught piano by Prof. Eleanor Wong.
Grace is currently attending primary school at Maryknoll Convent School.
At the age of eight, she gained a distinction in the ABRSM Piano Grade Eight Examination.
Grace has participated in numerous competitions where she has won several accolades, including, among others, a first place in Grade Four and in Grade Six of graded piano solo sections of the 65th and 67th Hong Kong Schools Music Festivals in 2013 and 2015 respectively; a gold award in ‘Age Group 6-8’ of the Gifted Pianists Contest in 2014 and a first prize in Junior Class A of Professional Category of the 2nd Japan-HK International Music Competition in 2013.

 


 

Joy of Music 2015 ArtistTim YEUNG (piano)
Tim Yeung is 10 years old and is a primary school pupil attending the English School Foundation [ESF] Sha Tin Junior School.
He began playing the piano at the age of three. In 2010, he was admitted to the Junior Music Programme at the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts, where he is presently studying under the tutelage of Prof. Eleanor Wong.
His achievements include a first place at the 73rd Steinway & Sons International Youth Piano Competition (Amateur Class Group C), first place at the 77th Steinway & Sons International Youth Piano Competition (Amateur Class Group B), first place at the 6th China Final of Steinway & Sons International Youth Piano Competition and the silver medal in the 16th International Chopin Piano Competition in Asia.

 


 

Joy of Music 2015 ArtistElvis LI, Changru (piano)
Elvis Li is 11 years old and started playing the piano at the age of four. At the age of six, he was admitted to the Junior Music Program at the HKAPA, majoring in piano, being taught by Mr. Kam Wing Chong.
He is the recipient of a scholarship by the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts.
He is now a pupil at Primary Six in Raimondi College Primary Section.
In 2015, Elvis won the first prize in the Grade 8 piano competition and was awarded the Tom Lee Medal in the Hong Kong Schools Music Festival. He also got a distinction in the ABRSM grade 8 examination for both, piano and alto saxophone.

 


 

 

Joy of Music 2015 ArtistLI, Muxin (guitar)
LI, Mu-xin, 7 years old, was born in Hangzhou, Zhejiang. She has been studying guitar since she was three years old with her parents who are both guitarists. Mu-xi attends primary school in Hangzhou.
In July 2014, she was awarded the first place in the children group at the 3rd International Guitar Festival in Changsha, China and a year later she won the third place in the open group at the 4th International Guitar Festival also in Changsha.

 

 

 


 

Joy of Music 2015 ArtistAlex MAK, Kwan Yui (piano)
Alex Mak, aged 11, is now studying at the Secondary section of the Diocesan Boys’ School. In 2012, he was admitted to the Junior Music Program of HKAPA as a piano major, where he is being taught by Prof. Eleanor Wong. For five consecutive years, he won first prizes in piano contests in the Hong Kong Schools Music Festival (63th to 67th). He has also won prizes in various other local piano competitions. In 2014-2015, Alex was Concertmaster in Ying Wa Primary School Senior band, with which he won several overseas awards such as the 2014 Yamaha National Band Championships (Brisbane), and the 21st Century International Arts Festival 2012 ( Malaysia). In addition, he got first prize in the 66th Hong Kong Schools Music Festival in Clarinet Solo.

 


 

Joy of Music 2015 ArtistJane LEUNG (piano)
Jane Leung is aged 12 and is now a secondary school pupil at the Good Hope School. Since 2013 she has been a scholarship recipient of the HKAPA Junior Music Programme in piano, where she is being taught by Ms. Amy Sze. She has participated in numerous competitions and won first prizes in the 61st HK Schools Music Festival in Grade 4 Piano Solo and the 64th HK Schools Music Festival, Grade 7, Piano Solo, at ages five and eight respectively. She was one of the ten selected young pianists across Asia region to the Allianz Global Investors Junior Music Excursion in 2015, received the Bronze Award in The Gifted Pianist Contest in 2013 and, finally, received with distinction the Associate Diploma of Trinity College London (ATCL) in Piano.

 


 

Joy of Music 2015 ArtistCindy ZHANG, Junyu (piano)
Cindy Zhang, now aged almost 13, started learning the piano when she was 6 years old. Since 2012 she has been studying piano as a student of Junior Music Programme in HKAPA under the tutelage of Prof. Eleanor Wong. During 2010 -2012, she participated in many master classes with masters such as Prof. Karl-Heinz Kammerling, Prof. Anotal Ugorski and Prof. Andreas Weber at the Mozarteum University in Salzburg, Austria. She also gave public recitals during the periods of International Summer Academy Mozarteum in the years 2010, 2011 and 2012, in the hall of Solitar and Wiener Saal. In January 2012, Cindy won the first price at the 58th International Grotrian Piano Competition.
Cindy is currently a student at Harrow International School Hong Kong.

 

 

 
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