Personal life
Albert Tiu is married to his wife Susan, and they have two children, Alexander and Lauren. [10]
Albert Tiu | |
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| Born | March 20, 1969 Cebu, Philippines |
| Origin | Philippines |
| Genres | Classical |
| Occupation(s) | Concert pianist, music professor and recording artist |
| Instrument(s) | Piano |
| Labels | Arktos, Decca, Ablaze, Centaur |
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Albert Tiu (born March 20, 1969) is a classical pianist from the Philippines.
Born in 1969 in Cebu, Albert first learned to play the piano at the age of five. At the age of eleven, he was accepted at the Philippine High School for the Arts, a government-run school for the musically gifted at the National Arts Center, in Mount Makiling, Laguna. [1]
He studied piano with Nita Quinto at the University of the Philippines College of Music, with John Winther in the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts, and with Michael Lewin at the Boston Conservatory. In 1996, he received his Master of Music degree from the Juilliard School, where he was a scholar and student of Jerome Lowenthal. [2]
Between 1996 and 2002, Albert participated in piano competitions, winning First Prizes at the 1996 Unisa Piano Competition in South Africa and the 2000 Web Concert Hall Piano Competition in the U.S. [3] [4] He also won prizes in Calgary (Honens), Helsinki (Maj Lind), Santander (Paloma O'Shea Santander International Competition), and special awards for his performance of Mozart Piano Concerto K595 and the Rachmaninoff's Piano Concerto No. 2 at the Unisa Competition (see list below). [2]
His performance highlights include soloist with the St. Petersburg Philharmonic, Hamburg Symphony, Finnish Radio Symphony, Gstaad Festival Orchestra, Baden-Baden Philharmonic, Northern Sinfonia (England), Calgary Philharmonic, Winnipeg Symphony, Louisiana Philharmonic, Michigan Chamber Symphony, Johannesburg Philharmonic, Cape Town Philharmonic, Guangzhou Symphony, Philippine Philharmonic Orchestra and Juilliard Symphony.
He has settled in Singapore, where he is a Professor at the Yong Siew Toh Conservatory, [5] National University of Singapore.
He is noted for his interesting thematic programming, coming up with recital programmes entitled "Nocturnal Fantasies", alternating similarly titled pieces (with similar keys as well) by Chopin and Scriabin; "Bee Flat", featuring the two Sonatas in B-flat (Op.22 and Op.106) by Beethoven; and "Chopin without Chopin", featuring some of Leopold Godowsky's Studies on Chopin's Études, the Skryabin Polonaise and the Busoni and Rachmaninov Variations on the same C-minor Prelude.
As a chamber musician, he has collaborated with violinists Pierre Amoyal, Cho-Liang Lin, Robert McDuffie, Kam Ning and Qian Zhou, violist Nobuko Imai, cellist Li-Wei Qin, the T'ang Quartet, the St. Lawrence Quartet, the Australian String Quartet, and in duo-piano concerts with Thomas Hecht. In January 2005, he and the T'ang Quartet played together in a fund-raising concert at Victoria Concert Hall, Concert for Hope, to aid the victims of the 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami.
In August 2005, he gave the Singapore premiere of Samuel Barber's Piano Concerto with the Singapore Symphony Orchestra under conductor Tang Muhai at the Esplanade Concert Hall.
In September 2007, after suffering a dislocated left thumb from a bicycle accident, he performed an entire recital with his right hand alone. Albert arranged eight of Chopin preludes for the right hand and played a commissioned piece by Kawai Shiu. [9]
Albert Tiu is married to his wife Susan, and they have two children, Alexander and Lauren. [10]
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