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  • Sidney has been invited to play at the Benefit Concert for Lijiang Orphan School in Oct 2011
  • Sidney and Soprano Julie Kurzava to be featured at Germano's Trattoria in Cabaret Night: "Wake Up and Dream!"
  • Sidney has been invited to judge the Music Educators of Greator Annapolis Piano Solo Festival on April 3, 2011

  • Sidney was invited to judge the Gertrude S. Brown Memorial Piano Concerto Competition

  • Sidney joined the faculty at Peabody Institute

  • Sidney recently performed at Loyola University with Saxophonist Dmitrios Kostaras

  • Sidney joined the faculty at Garrison Forest School

  • Sidney has been invited to co-chair the Theory, Keyboard Musicianship, and High School Recognition Exams in 2009-10 at Maryland State Music Teachers Association

  • Sidney is now teaching at Loyola University

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.













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

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