Biography

Pianest Yingdi Sun, the Vice Dean, the Vice Professor and the MA Supervisor of Piano Department, Shanghai Conservatory of Music. He won the First Prize in the 7th International Franz Liszt Piano Competition held in Utrecht, the Netherlands in April 2005, becoming the first Chinese pianist to win this prestigious competition. Yingdi’s outstanding interpretation of Liszt has been praised by major media reports as “Liszt in primary colors.”

In recent years, Yingdi has been an active pianist both in China and worldwide. He has frequented to those great venues, including Amsterdam Royal Concertgebouw, London Barbican Centre, Wigmore Hall in London, Suntory Hall in Tokyo, Konzerthaus in Berlin, Tonhalle in Zurich, and Musikverein in Vienna. Yingdi Sun has performed with many renowned orchestras, including Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra, Czech National Symphony Orchestra, Netherlands Radio Symphony Orchestra, Radio-Sinfonieorchester Stuttgart des SWR, North Netherlands Symphony Orchestra, Zurich Chamber Orchestra, Mariinsky Orchestra, Prague Symphony Orchestra, Slovenia Philharmonic, Sydney Symphony Orchestra, Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, New Zealand National Symphony Orchestra, Seoul Philharmonic Orchestra, Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra, Macao Orchestra, Singapore Chinese Orchestra, China National Symphony Orchestra, Beijing Symphony Orchestra, China NCPA Symphony Orchestra, Shanghai Symphony Orchestra, among others. He has enjoyed collaborations with some of the world-famous conductors, including Valery Gergiev, Myung-Whun Chung, Michel Plasson, Petr Altrichter, James Judd, Edo de Waart, Ronald Zollmann, George Pehlivanian, Zoltan Kocsis, Michel Tabachnik, Andreas Ligeti, Jean-Bernard Pommier, Daniel Raiskin, Stephane Dénève, David Stern, Andrew Grams, Long Yu, Muhai Tang, Zuohuang Chen, Lü Jia, Tsung Yeh, Lan Shui, Lihua Tan, Guoyong Zhang, Xincao Li, Zhong Xü,Yi Zhang and Yangyang，among others.

Yingdi Sun is also a practitioner in promoting Chinese piano works. He has premiered a series of piano and orchestra works and chamber music compositions worldwide, including pieces by renowned Chinese composers such as He Xuntian, Chu Wanghua, and Tan Dun. Additionally, he has recorded and released piano works by numerous Chinese composers including Chu Wanghua, Liu Dunnan, Sang Tong, and Wang Jianzhong.

Yingdi Sun has always been an avid chamber musician. At the end of 2011, Yingdi joined with violinist Siqing Lu and cellist Li-Wei Qin to formed the Major Trio. The trio has becoming the most demanded chamber group and giving performances throughout China.

Yingdi Sun’s recordings have been released by the Dutch Brilliant Classics and NCPA Classics of National Centre for the Performing Arts.