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Celebrated young Kiwi pianist Tony Chen Lin is playing in Warkworth this month as part of a national tour.
The concert has been organised by Warkworth Music and will be held in the Mahurangi College auditorium on Friday September 30 at 7.30 pm.
Tony will perform master works of the piano repertoire by Bach, Bartok, Beethoven and Schumann, as well as one of his own compositions, penned especially for this tour.
Tony was born in China and moved to New Zealand with his parents when he was six. His first encounter with music came at the age of twelve with keyboard lessons, before advancing to piano a year later with Rosemary Stott.
At 14, Tony made his concerto debut after winning the Christchurch Junior Concerto Competition in 2002.
After wining the New Zealand National Concerto Competition in 2007, Tony completed his Bachelor of Music with First Class Honours in piano performance at the University of Canterbury in 2009.
After studying in Singapore for a short time, Tony gained a Master of Music under Gilead Mishory at the Hochschule für Musik Freiburg in Germany in 2013.
As part of his graduation concerts, Tony formed his own chamber orchestra to perform, as well as conduct, a Mozart piano concerto. Tony recently graduated with Distinction from a Soloist Diploma (Konzertexamen) in Freiburg under Andreas Immer, while taking part-time studies with Balázs Szokolay at the Liszt Academy in Budapest.
Since 2009, Tony has been regularly invited to the Semaine Internationale de Piano et de musique de chambre in Switzerland, where he will be making an appearance this year as conductor.
Recent highlights include performances of Bartók’s First Piano Concerto in Freiburg, as well as appearing in the Rising Stars Festival in 2015, performing as soloist with the Stuttgart State Orchestra.
Tickets $30, students free. Cash only.
Info: warkworthmusic.org.nz
