CunMo Yin 尹存墨, pianist

Born in 1993 at Xinjiang, the remote western province of China, seventeen years old Chinese pianist Cun Mo (pronounced tsuen-mo) Yin has been widely recognized for accomplishing countless musical feats and taking the pianistic world by storm at a strikingly young age.

In 2008, Cun Mo recorded Liszt’s Twelve Transcendental Etudes at the age of thirteen. The recording and accompanying performance with the Shanghai Symphony Orchestra playing Liszt’s 2nd Piano Concerto, and a solo recital in the prestigious Braunschweig Music Festival in Germany, have earned him a reputation as a “young Liszt reborn.” French pianist Cyprien Katsaris indicated that Cun Mo’s performances reminded him of the style of Hungarian virtuoso pianist Georges Cziffra.

As a student at the Shanghai Conservatory Affiliated High School, Cun Mo was the recipient of the Yamaha Asia Music Scholarship as well as the second prize winner and the youngest contestant of the 2009 Shanghai International Piano Competition.

Cun Mo’s featured appearance on China Central Television’s Piano Extravaganza before the 2008 Beijing Olympics garnered unprecedented praise from music critics and audiences alike. This included pianist Lang Lang, who proclaimed that Cun Mo “is probably the most promising young star on the horizon.” In 2009, as the winner of Foundation for Chinese Performing Arts Piano Competition, he appeared as a soloist with the Longwood Symphony Orchestra at Boston’s historical Esplanade performing Ravel’s Piano Concerto in G Major.
Currently, Cun Mo is studying with Hung-Kuan Chen at Walnut Hill School for the Arts and New England Conservatory’s Preparatory Program. His past teachers included Zheng Daxing, and Tang Peihua.

(July, 2010)
 



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