Yundi · Sonata 2020 Piano Recital World Tour
Li Yundi is a Chinese classical pianist. He is also popularly known as Yundi and formerly Yundi Li
Date/Time: Feb 19 2020, 7:30 pm to 9:30 pm
Vancouver, The Orpheum | Event calendar601 Smithe St.
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李云迪《奏鸣曲·钢琴独奏世界巡回音乐会》(加拿大)
Internationally acclaimed pianist YUNDI was propelled onto the international stage when he won first prize at the XIV Chopin International Piano Competition at the age of 18, becoming the youngest and first Chinese winner in the history of the renowned competition. Since then, he has been regarded as a international piano star, also a leading exponent of Chopin’s music. On autumn 2014, the Fryderyk Chopin Institute, as the organiser of The International Fryderyk Chopin Piano Competition has invited Yundi to be one of the jury of The 17th International Fryderyk Chopin Piano Competition in 2015, who is also the youngest juror of the competition. In recognition of his contribution to Polish culture, the Government of Poland presented a Gold Medal for Merit to Culture ‘Gloria Artist’ to YUNDI in 2010.
The New York Times praised his performances “the brilliant young Chinese pianist, has proved a technically astounding pianist who is by turns elegant and rambunctious, coolly expressive and white-hot."
On his regular recital tours, YUNDI has performed in such venues as Carnegie Hall (New York), Royal Festival Hall (London), Musikverein Vienna, Alte Opera Frankfurt, Herkulessaal (Munich), Konzerthaus Berlin, Gewandhaus zu Leipzig, Salle Pleyel (Paris), Mariinsky Concert Hall (St Petersburg), National Centre for Performing Arts (Beijing), Seoul Arts Centre and Suntory Hall (Tokyo). Orchestras and conductors with whom he has collaborated include the Berliner Philharmoniker and Seiji Ozawa, Leipzig Gewandhausorchester and Riccardo Chailly, Mahler Chamber Orchestra and Daniel Harding, Rotterdam Philharmonic and Yannick Nézet-Séguin, Philharmonia Orchestra and Andrew Davis, Mariinsky Orchestra and Valery Gergiev, and the Israel Philharmonic and Gustavo Dudamel. He has also performed with the Vienna Philharmonic, National Symphony Orchestra (Washington), Philadelphia Orchestra, Toronto Symphony and NHK Symphony. Besides, he has participated in various internationally renowned music festivals as guest performer. His solo piano concert has received with delirious approval and the deep love from the music fans, especially in Europe, America, Japan and China. In 2013 he held more than 30 piano solo concerts in China, which created a Chinese classical concert national tour of the precedent.
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