The pianist and multiple competition winner Karrie Kam-Yan Yip is the winner of the Beethoven Prize at the International Vienna Piano Competition "Wiener Klassik" 2024 - donated by Music Quarter by C. Bechstein. The Hong Kong native won the competition against 65 other pianists from all over the world. Her performance of the Six Variations in F Major, with which she succeeded, can now be heard in the Ehrbar Saal - together with other interesting works from the late Romantic and Impressionist periods.
Karrie Yip has just published her Artist Diploma on Royal College of Music under the direction of Sofya Gulyak and Ilya Kondratiev, was awarded a full scholarship by the Croucher Trust was supported. She had previously completed her Bachelor's and Master's degrees at the College with John Byrne with First Class Honours.
Karrie Yip enjoys her stage appearances in Europe and Asia - so far in the Ehrbar Saal, in the Glass Hall of the Musikverein in Vienna, in the Austrian Cultural Forum in London, in St George's (Hanover Square), in the St James's Church Piccadilly, the St Paul's Church, the St Mary Abbots Church, the St Mary-le-Bow Church and the Beaconsfield United Reformed Church on. She has performed in the Act City Hamamatsu Japan, the Hong Kong Academy of Performing Arts, the Chinese University of Hong Kong, the Hong Kong City Hall and in the Hong Kong Cultural Centre. Karrie Yip was invited to the Steinway Halls and in the youth and children's palaces in Bao'an, Shenzhen and Foshan for several consecutive years. Her most recent projects include the recording of unrecorded works by Mathieu Crickboom with violinist Anna Ovsyanikova.
Karrie Yip is the winner of numerous competitions, including the Beethoven Prize and the Second International Artists' Competitionthe seventh International GOCCA Pianist Competitionwhere she was awarded the youth pianist contract, as well as winner of the Hong Kong regional selection, third prize in the fifth Asian Youth Music Competition, fifth prize in the 13th Hong Kong Asia-Pacific Piano Competition and one of the finalists of the 20th Japanese Hamamatsu PIARA-piano competition. She was also honoured by the Hong Kong government with the Sir Robert Black Trust Fund excellent.
Sergei Rachmaninov
Morceaux de fantaisie Op.3
IV. Polichinelle
III Mélodie
Maurice Ravel
Miroirs
I. Noctuelles
II Oiseaux tristes
III Une barque sur l'océan
IV. Alborada del gracioso
V. La vallée des cloches
- INTERMISSION -
Ludwig van Beethoven
Six Variations for Piano in F Major, op. 34
Nikolai Medtner
Sonata Tragica, op. 39 no. 5
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