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Sidney Yin | Pianist

Biography

Chinese-Canadian pianist Sidney Yin is currently serving on the Peabody Conservatory has taught at the world renowned Juilliard School of New York. His past teachers include Julian Martin, Veda Kaplinsky, Edward Parker, and Betty Wong. He has played in Master Classes for John Perry, Marc Durand, Leon Fleisher, Boris Berman, Howard Shelly, and Blanca Uribe. During his early years, Sidney's talents had already been widely recognized in Hong Kong, Canada and the U.S. with continuous outstanding achievements in local and regional music competitions earning numerous trophies, scholarships and awards.


In 1998, Sidney was Provincial Winner of the National Piano Class of the British Columbia Festival of Arts. He was a prize-winner at the Shean Piano Competition held in Edmonton, Alberta. In 1999, he was 1st prize winner of the 5th Annual Pacific Piano Competition. He was also the 1999 ARCT Gold Medalist for scoring a near perfect mark of 99%, the highest mark in the history of The Royal Conservatory of Music in Canada. As a guest soloist, he has performed with the Burnaby Symphony Orchestra, Vancouver Symphony Orchestra, Sinfonia Orchestra of the North Shore, New Juilliard Ensemble, and Northeastern Pennsylvania Philharmonic and other orchestras in recital halls and theatres within and outside North America, including the Weill Recital Hall and the Isaac Stern Auditorium at Carnegie Hall, Alice Tully Hall and Juilliard Theatre. Sidney was the featured soloist of the 2001 and 2003 "Focus!" series of the Juilliard in New York. In October 2003, he was invited to be a guest pianist to perform a commissioned work by Yo-Yo Ma's Silk Road Project in New Jersey.

Teaching

Having more than 15 years of teaching experience, Sidney currently maintains a private studio in Ellicott City. Sidney has taught and given masterclasses in Canada and US. He also teaches at Nathan Carter School of Music in Baltimore, Loyola University, Peabody Institute of the Johns Hopkins University, and judges frequently in local and regional competitions. His teaching philosophy and style is influenced by his training from the Royal Conservatory of Music in Canada, as well as his training at Juilliard and Peabody. For more information about his teaching, click on the piano studio link above.

You are listening to the Rachmaninov "Prelude No. 2 in C Sharp Minor" Op. 3,
played on a Bösendorfer Imperial Model 290