The Kraków Philharmonic presents a series of master recitals by the participants of the 19th Fryderyk Chopin International Piano Competition in Warsaw.
In December, the Kraków Philharmonic will host Vincent Ong, Malaysian pianist, who won an internation acclaim as a laureate of the 5th prize ex aequo at the Chopin Competition, as well as the winner of the 19th International Robert Schumann Piano Competition in 2024.
Fryderyk Chopin:
Polonaise-Fantasia in A flat major, Op. 61
24 Preludes, Op. 28
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Nocturnes, Op. 62
Sonata in B minor, Op. 58
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Vincent Ong
Born on 12 April 2001, he began studying with Ng Chong Lim and is now continuing his education with Eldar Nebolsin at the Hochschule für Musik Hanns Eisler in Berlin. He has been tutored by the likes of Elisabeth Leonskaja, Natalia Trull and Boris Berman. His first competition success was winning the International Taipei Maestro Piano Festival in 2019. He later won sixth prize in the Singapore International Piano Competition (2020) and first prize in the International Robert Schumann Competition (2024). He has received the Susanne Scholten Foundation’s Maurice Ravel Piano Prize, a scholarship from the Clavarte Foundation of Switzerland and the Lucia-Loeser Scholarship funded by his university.
