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, Singapore, 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 Prof. Stefan Ammer and 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 early 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 [2] and on the MBS network in Australia.

As concerto soloist, he has appeared with the Adelaide, Canberra, Melbourne,[3] Queensland, Sydney and Tasmanian Symphony Orchestras, 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, Fabian Russell, Marcus Stenz, Arvo Volmer and Marco Zuccarini.

Concerto highlights have included Rachmaninoff 3rd with the Sydney Symphony, the Rachmaninoff Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini in Beijing and Canberra, and Britten with the Adelaide Symphony Orchestra. Recent concerto highlights include Rachmaninoff 3rd, Chopin 2nd, Beethoven's Emperor, Ravel's Left Hand concerti in Melbourne and New Zealand, and Saint-Saêns 2nd with the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra.[4]

Described by The Age as ‘a true chamber musician at work’, Chong has performed often with musicians such as the Tinalley and Australian String Quartets, violinists Sophie Rowell, Natsuko Yoshimoto, 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, Alexandre da Costa, Dale Barltrop, Jack Liebeck and Vadim Gluzman, violists Christopher Moore and Caroline Henbest, and clarinetists Philip Arkinstall and Michael Collins amongst many others.

Recent festival performances include the Australian Festival of Chamber Music, the Huntington Estate Music Festival [5] 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 [6] and the Bangalow Festival.[7] 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. He has also recorded the complete Rachmaninoff Preludes for piano for ABC Classic FM in May 2011, and has several pending recordings including the Brahms Op.120 Sonatas for Clarinet and Piano with Philip Arkinstall and with flautist Megan Sterling, works by Miriam Hyde, Anne Boyd, Carl Vine, Frank Martin, Poulenc and Gaubert.

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

References

  1. ↑ "Kristian Chong - Pianist". Kristianchong.wix.com. Retrieved 2013-06-08.
  2. ↑ "ABC Classic FM - Music Listings - Recent". ABC Classic FM. Retrieved 2017-08-12.
  3. ↑ "Benjamin Northey Conducts Enigma - Melbourne Symphony Orchestra". Melbourne Symphony Orchestra. Retrieved 2017-08-12.
  4. ↑ "Benjamin Northey Conducts Enigma - Melbourne Symphony Orchestra". Melbourne Symphony Orchestra. Retrieved 2018-07-29.
  5. ↑ "2011 Festival". huntingtonestate.com.au. Retrieved 2017-08-12.
  6. ↑ "Mimir Chamber Music Festival 2017 — Melbourne Conservatorium of Music". mcm.unimelb.edu.au. Retrieved 2017-08-12.
  7. ↑ "2016 Bangalow Music Festival | Southern Cross Soloists". Retrieved 2018-07-29.
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