Steinway Thailand proudly presents a Piano Solo Recital by Jonathan Kuo, a talented Young Steinway Artist and winner of the Virginia Waring International Piano Competition and Chopin ASEAN & Thailand International Piano Competition.
Jonathan will be performing his solo recital at three prestigious venues in Bangkok including two world-class academic institutions renowned for music education and Steinway & Sons Showroom.
October 9th 2023
Shrewsbury International School Bangkok, Riverside
October 10th 2023
King's College International School Bangkok
October 12th 2023
Steinway & Sons Showroom Bangkok
Jonathan Kuo started piano lessons at the age of seven, under the tutelage of Iswargia Renardis Sudarno. Jonathan’s passion for music has led him to many achievements on the national and international levels. Jonathan became a prize winner in the Indonesia Steinway Youth Piano Competition (2012), followed by being a prize winner in the 5th ASEAN International Chopin Piano Competition in Kuala Lumpur. Since then, he has won prizes in other competitions, including the Kawai Youth International Piano Competition in Wuhan, China (2013) the Indonesia Steinway Youth Piano Competition (2014) the Thailand 1st Chopin International Competition (2014), the Medan International Piano Competition (2015), the Indonesia Steinway Youth Piano Competition (2016 and 2018). In 2019, Jonathan participated in the 2019 Robert Schumann Competition for Young Artists in Düsseldorf and the 2019 Waring International Piano Competition in Palm Desert, California. Jonathan also made it to the semifinals of the 2019 e-Piano Junior Competition in Minnesota.Jonathan has also participated actively in many masterclasses under international-level pianists and pedagogues, including Alexander Kobrin (USA), Boris Petrushansky (Russia/ Italy), Jan Jiracek von Armin (Germany/Austria), Assaf Zohar (Israel), Boris Kraljevic (Montenegro/Singapore), Steven Spooner (USA), Manfred Aust (Germany), Stephen Hough (UK), among others. Since his early teens, Jonathan had already given many public performances of solo piano works as well as piano concertos, in Indonesia as well as neighboring countries.
Jonathan became an Indonesian Young Steinway Artist in 2018. He regularly performs piano concertos by Mozart, Beethoven, Tchaikovsky, Rachmaninov and others. Some of his performance in 2022 are a live concerto performance in Jakarta on 26-March-2022, a performance of Poulenc’s Concerto for Two Pianos with the Jakarta Sinfonietta, Beethoven’s Emperor Concerto on 14-May-2022 with conductor Lien Boon Hua (Singapore) and the Jakarta Simfonia Orchestra, a private concert at Steinway Gallery Singapore on 22- Aug-2022 and a concert at UCSI Malaysia on 6-Oct-2022 playing Beethoven’s Sonata in D Major, Op10. No 3, Ravel’s Le tombeau de Couperin and Schubert’s Sonata in A Minor, Op 42, D845. And the last performance in 2022 for Jonathan is with Bandung Philharmonic Orchestra on 19-No-2022.
This year, Jonathan is planned to have several performances in South East Asia’s countries and also some performances with Jakarta Sinfonietta.
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