credit: Remy Holwick
Presented by Classical Unlocked
Tiffany Poon at Cooper's BBQ
Hong-Kong born pianist, Tiffany Poon charted No.1 on Billboard's Traditional Classical and Apple Music Classical across four continents with her recent debut album "Diaries: Schumann" on Pentatone.
She has appeared with orchestras and in recital throughout the United States, Canada, Europe and Australia since she was first accepted to the Juilliard pre-college program at the age of eight where she studied with Emanuel Ax and Joseph Kalichstein.
With a YouTube community of 324k subscribers and over 50 million views, Tiffany is dedicated to building new audiences in classical music through insights into her life as a musician with the aim of making music more accessible for all. She is the Founder of Doremi Classical, a new platform to connect classical artists' stories with new audiences, and of ‘Together with Classical’, a charity which empowers people of diverse musical backgrounds to learn and share their experiences with classical music through online community engagement, grant-giving, interviews and educational videos.
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