Rachel Cheung
- January 10, 2024
- Pianist
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Rachel Cheung Biography
| Name | Rachel Cheung |
| Birthday | Sep 27 |
| Birth Year | 1991 |
| Birth Country | Hong Kong |
| Birth Sign | Virgo |
Rachel Cheung is one of the most popular and richest Pianist who was born on September 27, 1991 in Hong Kong. Rachel Wai-Ching Cheung, Chinese: Zhang Wei Qing; Jyutping; Zoeng Wai Cheung ; born September 27, 1991 in Kowloon (Hong Kong) is a pianist. She has been awarded numerous prizes in Hong Kong and abroad, and she performs regularly in Asia and North America.
Cheung, 15 years old, opened 2007 Golandsky Institute International Piano Festival, performing works by Chopin and Copland, Mozart, and Schumann in Taplin Auditorium, Fine Hall, Princeton University, New Jersey.
Cheung comes from a musical family. Her father, a piano teacher, gave her first piano lessons at age four. At age ten, she was admitted to The Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts (HKAPA) as a junior student studying under Professor Eleanor Wong, Artist-in-Residence and Senior Lecturer in Keyboard. She also attended secondary school at the Maryknoll Convent School. For college, she continued studies at HKAPA with Professor Wong and obtained her Bachelor of Music degree in Piano Performance with First Class Honours in June 2011 on a full scholarship from the Robert H.N. Ho Family Foundation.
On February 25, 2012 Cheung performed Johannes Brahms’s Six Pieces, Op. 118 as part of The Kennedy Center’s Conservatory Project featuring Yale School of Music students on The Millennium Stage at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, DC. On December 3, 2012 she performed W.A. Mozart: Sonata No. 15 in F major, K. 533/494 in a piano master class with Robert D. Levin at Parker Recital Hall in Leigh Hall, Yale University.
Cheung gave a solo recital in Hong Kong City Hall Concert Hall on December 14,
- This concert was part of The Joy of Music Festival, which was organized by The Chopin Society of Hong Kong. She performed Mozart’s Fantasy No. 2 in C minor K. 396/385f, and Piano Sonata No. 18 in D major. K. 576. Liszt’s Benediction de Dieu Dans la Solace and Two Concert Studies. Schubert’s Three Piano Pieces. D. 946. Chopin’s Four Mazurkas. Op. 24 and Ballade, in F minor Op. 52, No. 52, No.
Rachel Cheung Net Worth
| Net Worth | $5 Million |
| Source Of Income | Pianist |
| House | Living in own house. |
Rachel Cheung is one of the richest Pianist from Hong Kong. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Rachel Cheung 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)
Cheung was awarded First Prize in 2001’s Hong Kong Regional Competition of the Steinway and Sons International Youth Piano Competition. She won First Prize in the 2002 Llangollen International Music Eisteddfod Western Instrumental Group Under 15 in Wales, her first competition in Europe. Cheung was awarded First Prize in the Junior Section (under 15 years) at the 2005 Biennial International Competition for Young Pianists In Memory of Vladimir Horowitz in May 2003. She won the Gold Medal and was also awarded three special prizes by the jury: Best Performance of Romantic Period Pieces, Most Outstanding Concerto Performance, and Youngest Participant. In 2003, Cheung won First Prize in both the Piano Solo and Piano Concerto Under 18 divisions at the 55th Hong Kong School Music Festival. She won First Prize in June 2004 and a Peer Jury Prize as the most popular finalist in the 2004 Gina Bachauer International Juvenile Piano Competition, Salt Lake City.
The extraordinary program that Cheung, 13, performed at the 2005 Miami International Piano Festival, Fort Lauderdale Center for the Performing Art, was greeted with thunderous cheers, cheers and whistles by the crowd. She performed Bach’s Chromatic Fantasy and Fugue in D major, Haydn’s Piano Sonata E-flat minor, Liszt’s Etude in F minor, La Leggierezza, and Bach’s Chromatic Fantasy. 2b),” “Etude No. 5 in E major, Lacha’s “Variations brillantes in B–flat major,” Chopin’s”Variations in E major,” Faure’s “Nocturne No. 1 in E-flat minor,” “Barcarolle No. 4 in E-flat minor,” “Barcarolle No. 2 in F major,” and “Impromptu No. 4, No. 4, No. 3 in A minor Op. 28.” The audience presented Cheung seven bouquets and an stuffed lamb after the event was over.
In 2008, Cheung won second prize at the Alessandro Casagrande International Piano Competition in Terni, Italy. In September 2009 she won fifth prize at the Leeds International Pianoforte Competition, the best result a Hong Kong pianist has achieved in this prestigious competition. She was also a semi- finalist at the XVI International Chopin Piano Competition in Warsaw in October 2010. In November 2012, Cheung was awarded the George Leibenson Special Prize at the 67th Geneva International Music Competition in Piano.
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In 2017, Cheung was a finalist and won the Audience Award in the Fifteenth Van Cliburn International Piano Competition in Fort Worth, Texas. The Dallas Morning News called her “a poet, but also a dramatist,” displaying “the most sophisticated and compelling music-making.”
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Rachel Ranked on the list of most popular Pianist. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Hong Kong. Rachel Cheung celebrates birthday on September 27 of every year.