参加大师课演奏的学生介绍（3） Bryan Cheng
Ottawa-born Canadian cellist Bryan Cheng made his orchestral debut with I Musici de Montreal at age 10. Also at age 10, he gave
his first performance with the National Arts Centre Orchestra at five Family and Mezzanine Concerts at Southam Hall. Following the concerts, he was invited to attend the NAC Summer Music Institute (SMI) pre-college program at age 10 and 11 under the direction of Pinchas Zukerman. In 2013 and 2014, he returned to SMI at age 15 and 16 to join the college level of the Young
Artist Program. Recently at the 2014 NAC Bursary Competition, Bryan won the $5000 Harold Crabtree Foundation Award. Bryan is very thankful to the performance opportunities and training programs provided by the NAC and its patrons. He has been frequently asked to perform at Friends of NACO's fundraising concerts, such as "Music to Dine for" at many embassies, including the official residence of the Chinese Ambassador to Canada, among others.
Bryan studied with cellist and conductor Yuli Turovsky for 8 years and currently studies with Hans Jørgen Jensen who is a long-time NAC SMI faculty member. He has played at masterclasses by renowned cellists and musicians including Daniel Müller-Schott, David Geringas, Frans Helmerson, Lawrence Lesser, Richard Aaron, Jian Wang, Jens Peter Maintz and Menahem Pressler.
Bryan is a First Prize winner at the Canadian Music Competition, and a top prize winner at many other competitions. He has been the guest soloist with several Canadian orchestras and has performed in first-class concert halls including the Montréal Symphony House (September and November 2013), Toronto's Koerner Hall (2014), Montreal’s Pollack Concert Hall (2011), and Harris Concert Hall at the Aspen Music Festival (2010), among others. He has soloed cello concerti by Haydn, Boccherini, Tchaikovsky, Dvorák, and Shostakovich with orchestras. Montreal’s La Presse commended his performance as “absolutely astonishing…playing with the technique, sonority, and musicality of a professional cellist.”
As a recitalist, Bryan has given two recitals at New York's Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall in 2011 and 2013 with his pianist sister Silvie Cheng. New York Concert Review wrote “Cellist Bryan Cheng, is gifted with abundant facility, innate musicality, and a sense of
joy…This young musician has all the makings of a fine concert artist”. The Cheng² Duo has been invited to several international music festivals including the Trasimeno Music Festival (Italy, 2014), Festival of the Sound (Ontario, 2014), to which they will return in 2015, and the Ottawa International Chamber Music Festival (2013 & 2014), where the duo presented two recitals and performed innovative recital programmes for cello and piano including music by Chinese composers. Outside of Canada and the US, the Cheng² Duo has given recitals and concerts in Italy, Belgium, Holland, the Czech Republic, and South Korea. On Canada Day 2014, the duo was invited to perform, as the “culture ambassador” for Canada, at the official residence of the Canadian Ambassador to the EU in Brussels at a reception for diplomats from around the world.
Bryan just returned from Germany last week, where he soloed with the Südwestdeutsches Kammerorchester Pforzheim, performing Haydn's Cello Concerto in D Major. He was recently named CBC (Canadian Broadcasting Corporation) Young Artist of 2014 and his recital has been recorded for broadcast in 2015.
