Tian-Yu Zhou

Canadian-Chinese pianist Tianyu Zhou is a young classical pianist born into a musician family who started her piano education at the age of four and gave her fist public concert at age of five. When Tianyu was ten years old, she was invited to perform at the Barrie International Music Festival. In the same year, Tianyu was named as “Wonder Kid” by Toronto CCTV, and was featured in a broadcasted interview. Shortly afterwards, Tianyu won the first prize of Royal Conservatory Competition and was rewarded to perform Beethoven Piano Concerto No.2 in B Flat Major with Academy Symphony Orchestra.

Since then, Tianyu has appeared in many festivals including Niagara International Chamber Music Festival where she was once again invited at the age of 13 to perform Mendelssohn Concerto for Piano and Violin in D Minor in the open gala concert. Tianyu has remained to perform actively that at the age of sixteen, she was invited to perform Liszt Piano Concerto No.1 in E Minor at the Orpheum Theatre to celebrate the 40th Anniversary of Vancouver Academy of Music. At the age of seventeen, she won the grand prize of Kay Meek Music Competition where she performed Rachmaninov Piano Concerto No.2 in C Minor. Tianyu has performed more than 10 piano concertos with various orchestras including Vancouver Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra, Vancouver Youth Symphony Orchestra, West Coast Symphony Orchestra, Vancouver Academy of Music Symphony Orchestra, New Westminster Symphony Orchestra, Royal Conservatory of Music Symphony Orchestra, and Hebei Symphony Orchestra in China. In the upcoming season, Tianyu will be working with West Coast Symphony Orchestra to perform Prokofiev Concerto No.3 in C Major.

As a young classical pianist, Tianyu has been invited to perform in UK, Poland, Italy, Holland, Canada, US, Japan, China, Singapore, and Malaysia. Honoring the Chopin anniversary year of 2010, Tianyu was invited to perform in Houston and all Chopin program by the Vancouver Chopin Society. In 2011, Tianyu gave her first performance of Bach Goldberg Variations at the age of eighteen; in 2012, she was also featured live on RTHK radio 4 in Hong Kong and her most recent interview was featured on Beijing Music Station, 97.4fm’s “Classics at Pop Times” in 2013.

Tianyu immigrated with her parents to Canada when she was nine and received a scholarship to study with Marina Geringas at the Royal Conservatory of Music in Toronto. She finished her Bachelor degree at the Vancouver Academy of Music with Prof. Lee Kum-Sing. Currently, Tianyu is studying at the Karol Szymanowski Academy of Music with Prof. Wojciech Switala.