Pianist Ning An is the First Prize
Winner of the 2003 William Kapell Piano
Competition. Ning An made his concerto
debut at the age of sixteen, performing
the Rachmaninov Second Piano Concerto
with the Cleveland Orchestra in February
of 1993. He has since appeared with the
London Symphony Orchestra, Warsaw
Philharmonic, the Moscow Radio Symphony
Orchestra, the BelgianNational Symphony, the Baltimore Symphony
Orchestra, the Flemish Radio Symphony, the
Stuttgart Philharmonic, and the Taipei Symphony
Orchestra and has worked with such conductors as
Rafael Fruhbeck de Burgos, Kasmierz Kord, Jajha
Ling, Vladimir Fedosseyev, Jorg-Peter Weigle,
Marc Soustrot, and Sergiu Comissiona. Mr. An has
presented recitals at venues such as Salle Verdi
(Milan, Italy), Salle Cortot(Paris), and the
Palais de Beaux Arts in Antwerp. He has been
invited to perform at numerous festivals,
including the International Chopin Festival in
Duszinski, Poland, the Gina Bachauer Piano
Festival in Salt Lake City, New Hampshire’s
Monadnock Music Festival, the Bourglinster
Festival in Luxembourg, and the Interlaken Music
Festival in Switzerland. . Mr. An was also a
soloist with theWarsaw Philharmonic during their
2001 centennial world tour.
Pianist Ning An’s recent Carnegie Hall debut, an
all-Chopin program presented by the Chopin
Foundation of the United States in Weill Recital
Hall, was praised in the New York Concert Review
for “the almost sculpted clarity of his playing,
and his ability to maintain balance and tension
in large-scale dramatic forms…Ning An impresses
with his developed musicianship, his discerning
sense of form and style, his penetrating and
illuminating interpretation, and his perfect
technical command. I have no doubt that he will
join the ranks of the finest interpreters of
Chopin.”
Mr. An was the Third Prize winner of the 1999
Queen Elizabeth Music Competition and was First
Prize Winner in the 2000 National Chopin Piano
Competition and received the Alfred Cortot Prize
at the 2000 International Chopin Competition.
Among the other top prizes he has received are
from the American Pianists Association, the
Kosciusko Chopin Competition, and the Stravinsky
International Piano Competition. Most recently
Mr. An was the Third Prize winner of the 2002
Paloma O’Shea Santander Competition in Spain as
well as being a laureate and recipient of the
audience prize at the 2002 Rachmaninoff
International Competition held in Pasadena,
California.
Ning An is currently an Artist in Residence at
Lee University, Tennessee. His principal
teachers were Russell Sherman and Olga
Radosalvjevich.
Ning An
