Tiffany Poon Explained

Tiffany Poon
Birth Date:	1996 12, df=yes
Birth Place:	British Hong Kong
Nationality:	Hong Kong United States
Occupation:	Pianist
Education:	Juilliard School Columbia University (BA)

Tiffany Poon (born 29 December 1996, Hong Kong) is a Hong Kong-born American classical pianist and vlogger, residing in New York City.

Career

Born in Hong Kong, Poon began taking piano lessons at the age of four.^[1] At nine, she moved to New York to study at the Juilliard School Pre-College Division for eight years with a full scholarship, under the guidance of Yoheved Kaplinsky. She studied at Calhoun School for high school, where she graduated in 2014.^[2] She continued her studies at the Columbia University / Juilliard School exchange program with Emanuel Ax and Joseph Kalichstein. In May 2018, she graduated from Columbia University as a John Jay Scholar with a Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy.^[3]

Poon made her concerto debut at the age of 10, and has appeared with orchestras and in recital throughout the United States, Canada, Europe, Australia and China.^[4] Among the venues where she has performed are Carnegie Hall, Steinway Hall in New York City, and Sala Mozart in Bologna, Italy. She has appeared as a soloist with the Plainfield Symphony Orchestra, Fort Smith Symphony Orchestra, ProMusica Chamber Orchestra, and Moscow Chamber Orchestra of Pavel Slobodkin Centre.^[5]

Poon has been active on social media since 2017 and expanded into video blogging when the COVID-19 pandemic ended live performances.^{[6] [7]} As of May 2021, Poon's YouTube channel had 290,000 subscribers: "Of course, it took years. I only started making vlogs because I thought that classical music lacked human elements. Composers are dead and current musicians don't really talk about themselves as humans."

In 2020, Poon founded Together with Classical, a nonprofit charity intended to unite people and communities together by promoting classical music, and to support and fund classical music education programs and opportunities.^{[6] [8]}

Awards

• 2012: First Prize and Best Performance of Concerto Award, 8th Moscow International Frederic Chopin Competition for Young Pianists
• 2013: Kaufman Music Center International Youth Piano Competition
• 2014: National YoungArts Winner in the United States^[9]
• 2014: First Prize, Juilliard Pre-College Concerto Competition
• 2014: Second Prize, 10th Chopin Golden Ring International Competition, Slovenia
• 2015: Participant of the XVII International Chopin Piano Competition in Warsaw, Poland
• 2016: First Prize, Manhattan International Music Competition^[10]
• 2016: Third Prize, 17th International Robert Schumann Competition, Germany^[11]
• 2016: Third Prize, “Debut at the Berlin Philharmonic Hall” International Concerto Competition
• 2017: Second prize, Walter W. Naumburg Foundation International Competition
• 2019: Second Place, KlavierOlymp of the Kissinger Sommer festival, Germany
• 2019: Young Artist Award, Hessen Agency at the Rheingau Music Festival.^{[12] [13]}

Discography

• Natural Beauty - J.S. Bach, Haydn, Chopin, Liszt, Debussy, Kawai Edition, 2014
• Edition Klavier-Festival Ruhr Vol. 38: Festivaldebüts 2019^[14]
• The Dvorak Album - with Jan Vogler, Kevin Zhu, Chad Hoopes, Matthew Lipman and Juho Pohjonen, Sony Classical, 2022^[15]
• Diaries | Schumann - Robert Schumann, Pentatone, 2024^[16]

External links

• • Together with Classical website

Notes and References

1. Web site: Wise . Brian . New Artist of the Month: Tiffany Poon . . 2021-05-04 . 1 May 2021.
2. Web site: News Post : A Concert to Celebrate Steve Nelson, Jan. 31. January 27, 2017 . 2021-12-17. Calhoun School.
3. Web site: Senior Profile: Tiffany Poon, CC '18. 2021-01-28. . 2018.
4. Web site: Tiffany Poon - Piano - Biography . Young Artist Foundation . 2021-05-05.
5. Web site: Biography Tiffany Poon. 2021-01-29. en-US.
6. Web site: Blackmore-Dobbyn . Andrew . Tiffany Poon: "Music is not about music, it's about life" . . 2021-05-05 . 25 November 2020.
7. Soundboard : Tiffany Poon : 'What If You Put Back The Human?' . July 23, 2021 . April 29, 2023 . Steinway & Sons.
8. Web site: What We Do . 2023-04-29. togetherwithclassical.org. en.
9. Web site: 2014 YoungArts Winners . 2014 . . Honorable Mentions in Music : Tiffany Poon, Piano, The Calhoun School, New York, New York . April 29, 2023.
10. Web site: First Manhattan International Music Competition (2016) . 2016 . manhattancompetition.com . April 29, 2023.
11. Web site: 2016-06-20 . Henriette Gödde und André Baleiro gewinnen Robert-Schumann-Wettbewerb nmz - neue musikzeitung . 2024-03-09 . www.nmz.de . de.
12. Web site: Tiffany Poon Piano Recital . 2021-02-08. . https://web.archive.org/web/20210127230813if_/https://www.brown.edu/academics/music/events/tiffany-poon-piano-recital. 2021-01-27.
13. Web site: Tiffany Poon (Bio). 2021-02-08. Top of the World International Piano Competition. en-GB . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20210214132229/https://topoftheworld.no/team/tiffany-poon/ . February 14, 2021.
14. Web site: Edition Klavier-Festival Ruhr Vol. 38 – 3 CDs: Festivaldebüts 2019 . 2024-03-09 . Klavier-Festival Ruhr . de-DE-formal.
15. Web site: Ueno . Azusa . 2022-08-08 . Review: Dvořák - Chamber Works - Jan Vogler . 2022-08-25 . The Classic Review . en-US.
16. Web site: Pentatone . Marketing . 2023-11-23 . Welcome to 'Diaries Schumann': The Enchanting World of Pianist Tiffany Poon . 2023-11-23 . Pentatone . en-US.