歷屆鋼琴大賽評判

覃文姍Chum Man Shan(香港HK)

Chum Man Shan is a Hong Kong-based pianist based in the UK, the first overseas young pianist of the Pearl River-Kayserburg Piano Competition, a special judge for the Asian finals of the Brahms International Piano Competition, and a member of the Singapore Asian Arts Association. She began learning piano at a young age, making her stage debut at six, achieving the only outstanding result in Shenzhen at the age of nine (Level 10 in the Chinese Musicians Association piano examination), and performing Kabalevsky's Piano Concerto with the Shenzhen Symphony Orchestra at the Shenzhen Grand Theatre at the age of ten. The renowned American pianist Jerome Lowenthal praised her as "an outstanding pianist with unparalleled imagination and touch." She graduated from the Shenzhen Arts School and was admitted to the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts in 2016 with a full scholarship, studying under the renowned piano educator Professor Huang Yilun. During her time at the academy, she received numerous scholarships, including the Cecil Leong Scholarship, the Eleanor Wong Scholarship, the Parsons Music Foundation Scholarship, and the 2018-2020 Pearl River-Kayserburg Scholarship. In 2020, she was admitted to the Royal Academy of Music in the UK with a generous scholarship to study under world-renowned pianist and educator Christopher Elton. During her studies, she received the Jennifer Sharp Award and graduated with honors, earning a Master's degree and a diploma in music studies.

Ms. Chum has participated in and won numerous piano competitions, including sixth place at the 9th International Youth Pianists Competition in Ukraine in memory of Vladimir Horowitz, first prize at the Colorado International Piano Competition in the United States, first prize at the 1st China Vocational College Skills Competition, third place at the 4th Kawai Asian Piano Competition, and fourth place at the 7th Croatian EPTA International Youth Piano Competition. Ms. Chum has extensive performance experience, having given concerts in the UK, USA, Belgium, Croatia, Russia, and China. She has collaborated with the Kyiv National Merited Radio Symphony Orchestra and the Shenzhen Symphony Orchestra and also has rich experience in chamber music performance. Recently, she performed Tchaikovsky's Piano Concerto No. 1 and Rachmaninoff's Piano Concerto No. 2 in Hong Kong and London. Ms. Chum has participated in the Salzburg Mozart International Summer Music Festival, the Beijing International Music Festival, the Colorado International Piano Summer Festival, and the WAVRE International Music Festival in Belgium. She has also received guidance from masters such as Diane Anderson, Jerome Lowenthal, Louis Lortie, Lee Kum-Sing, Jean-Claude Pennetier, Aquiles Dells Vigne, Maxim Mogilevsky, Joanna MacGregor, Vanessa Latarche, and Graham Scott.

 

覃文姍,香港旅英鋼琴家,珠江‧愷撒堡海外首位青年鋼琴藝術家,勃拉姆斯國際鋼琴大賽亞
洲賽區總決賽特聘評審,新加坡亞洲藝術協會會員。她自幼學習鋼琴,六歲登台,九歲獲得中
國音樂家協會鋼琴考級10級全深圳唯一一個優秀,十歲在深圳大劇院與深圳交響樂團合作演
出卡巴列夫斯基鋼琴協奏曲。美國著名鋼琴大師Jerome Lowenthal稱其為“傑出的鋼琴家,擁
有無與倫比的想像和触鍵”。她畢業於深圳藝術學校,於2016年以全額獎學金被香港演藝學院
錄取,師從著名鋼琴教育家黃懿倫教授,在校期間榮獲多項獎學金,包括Cecil Leong
Scholarship,Eleanor Wong Scholarship,Parsons Music Foundation Scholarship,
2018-2020珠江·愷撒堡獎學金。2020年以高額獎學金被英國皇家音樂學院(Royal Academy
of Music)錄取赴英深造,師從世界級鋼琴家、教育家克里斯朵夫·埃爾頓。她在校期間榮獲
Jennifer Sharp Award,並以優異的成績獲得碩士學位和音樂深造文憑。
覃氏曾參與及贏得多個鋼琴比賽,包括第九屆烏克蘭紀念弗拉基米爾·霍洛維茨的國際青年鋼
琴家比賽第六名,美國科羅拉多國際鋼琴比賽第一名,第一屆中國職業院校技能大賽一等獎,
第四屆Kawai亞洲鋼琴比賽第三名,第七屆克羅地亞EPTA國際青少年鋼琴比賽第四名等。覃
氏有豐富的表演經驗,曾在英國、美國、比利時、克羅地亞,俄羅斯,中國等地舉辦音樂會。她
曾與基輔烏克蘭國家功勳廣播交響樂團和深圳交響樂團合作,還擁有豐富的室內樂演奏經
驗。近期,她在香港和倫敦演出了柴可夫斯基第一鋼琴協奏曲和拉赫瑪尼諾夫第二鋼琴協奏
曲。
覃氏曾參加薩爾茨堡莫扎特國際夏季音樂節、北京國際音樂節、科羅拉多國際鋼琴夏季音樂
節及比利時WAVRE國際音樂節。她亦獲得Diane Anderson、Jerome Lowenthal、Louis Lortie
、Lee Kum-Sing、Jean-Claude Pennetier、Aquiles Dells Vigne、Maxim Mogilevsky、Joanna
MacGregor、Vanessa Latarche,Graham Scott 等大師的指導。