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Mixed bag of performances from young talents at 7th Steinway Youth Piano Competition
The Straits Times
|June 10, 2025
Alongside the National Piano & Violin Competition, the Steinway Youth Piano Competition is the most important mine for young local pianistic talent.
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7TH STEINWAY YOUTH PIANO COMPETITION: GRAND FINALS Yong Siew Toh Conservatory Concert Hall June 7
Established in 2012 and now in its seventh edition, this biennial competition has identified winners such as See Ning Hui, Hao Jia and Jessie Meng, all of whom have gone on to impress audiences at home and abroad.
The 2025 competition attracted 131 competitors from the ages of four to 51, in both amateur and professional classes.
Fifteen pianists in three age categories of the professional class vied for the grand prize and a chance to represent Singapore in the regional finals to be held in Bangkok in August.
Several past grand-prize winners were trotted out to perform in the award ceremony and concert, but these were unfortunately not in piano solos.
Meng (2018 winner) accompanied award-winning nine-year-old violinist Travis Wong in a movement from Summer from Antonio Vivaldi's Four Seasons.
This story is from the June 10, 2025 edition of The Straits Times.
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