BBC Magazine Rising Star Stephanie Tang is a Chinese-American pianist establishing an active career in solo and chamber performance in the U.S., Canada, U.K. and Europe. Her early career highlights include her solo debut in Carnegie Hall at age 12 and at sixteen, her orchestral solo debut with the West Covina Symphony Orchestra. She has appeared in major concert halls such as Carnegie Hall (New York), Walt Disney Concert Hall (Los Angeles), Shenzhen Concert Hall, Himalayan Concert Hall (Shanghai), Sendai Concert Hall, throughout the Netherlands, Place Flagey (Brussels), Wigmore Hall, Barbican Centre (London), Banff Centre, and Koerner Hall (Toronto).
This year, Stephanie was the winner of the Guildhall Gold Medal, the school’s most prestigious music prize previously won by artists such as Jacqueline du Pre, Tasmin Little & Bryn Terfel. She has also won 1st prize at the Young Pianists’ Beethoven Competition, 2nd prize at the Louisiana International Piano Competition and the Jury’s Discretionary Prize at the Los Angeles Philharmonic’s Bronislaw Kaper Awards. In 2021, she was a semi-finalist in the Montreal International Piano Competition and performed at Place Flagey in Brussels at the Queen Elisabeth International Piano Competition.
Stephanie has spent her summers at the Banff Centre, Holland Music Sessions, Music Academy of the West, Sarasota Music Festival, Toronto Summer Music and Four Seasons Chamber Music Festival. In masterclass, she has worked with exceptional artists such as Dang Thai Son, Richard Goode, Robert Levin, Jonathan Biss, Robert McDonald, Matti Raekallio, Jean-Yves Thibaudet, Menahem Pressler, and Leon Fleisher.
An avid chamber musician, she has performed and collaborated with John Adams, András Diaz, Esa-Pekka Salonen, and coached with members of the Ébène, Guarneri, Endellion and Tokyo Quartets. She is a member of the London-based Paddington Trio, where the ensemble recently won 1st prize at the 70th Royal Over-Seas League Competition. They won 2nd prize as well as the special prize for the best interpretation of an Estonian work at the 2021 Tallinn International Piano Chamber Music Competition.
Stephanie holds degrees from the Colburn Conservatory of Music (B.M.), Glenn Gould School (A.D.) and the Yale School of Music (M.M.). Her principal teachers have been John Perry, David Louie, Peter Serkin & Boris Slutsky. She currently studies at the Guildhall School of Music & Drama with Ronan O’Hora.
Recent concert highlights include performances at the Four Seasons Chamber Festival, Toronto Summer Music, Wigmore Hall and a concerto debut at the Barbican Centre, performing Brahms Piano Concerto No. 1 with the Guildhall Symphony Orchestra under Adrian Leaper.
Stephanie is passionate about story-telling and making connections through programming. From the standard classical canon to the contemporary and underrepresented, she wishes to bring audiences and communities together for a shared collective experience through music.