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BANNISTER, TANYA Tanya Bannister
Winner, 2003 Concert Artists Guild Competition
Gold Medal, 2005 New Orleans International Piano Competition
Winner of the 2003 Concert Artists Guild International
Competition, the pianist Tanya Bannister's burgeoning career has already
brought her to many of the world's great concert halls, including recitals in
the Kleine Zaal of the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, Salle Cortot in Paris,
Teatro Comunale in Bologna, Tokyo's Nikkei Hall, London's Queen Elizabeth and
Wigmore Halls, and the Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall for her New York
recital début on the CAG Concert Series. In July 2005 she confirmed her status
among the leading pianists of her generation when she was awarded the Gold
Medal at the New Orleans International Piano Competition. Performance prizes
resulting from this victory include numerous orchestral and recital
engagements, including a return to Wigmore Hall for a recital. Current
orchestral highlights include concerto appearances with the Louisiana
Philharmonic in New Orleans, the Baton Rouge and Acadania Symphonies in
Louisiana, New Haven Symphony Charlotte (NC) Philharmonic, Victoria (TX)
Symphony, American Civic Orchestra, Yale Philharmonia, Macao Philharmonic, Craiova
Symphony Orchestra in Romania and L'Aquila Filarmonica in Italy. In addition,
she collaborates with the pianist Stephen Buck, her husband, for performances
of Mozart's Concerto in E flat for Two Pianos, K. 365. In autumn 2003 she was
chosen as a guest artist of the Gina Bachauer International Piano Foundation
for their 'Music in Our Schools' Program, featuring a three-day residency in
various public schools in and around Salt Lake City and a critically acclaimed
recital at the Assembly Room on Temple Square. Among the many international
festivals at which she has performed are the Kurtág Festival in London (as part of the South Bank series at the Royal Festival Hall), Ravinia,
Schleswig-Holstein, Amsterdam's Holland Music Sessions, Tuckamore Festival in St John's, Newfoundland, England's Norwich Festival and Festival Encuentro de Musica y Academica de Santander, Spain.
Tanya Bannister was recently awarded the prestigious Wigmore
award from the Royal Academy of Music and is also a winner of the Woolsey Hall
Competition at Yale. A highlight of the numerous competitions she won earlier in
her career is the Asian Kawai Piano Competition, which brought her significant
exposure on radio and television throughout Southeast Asia. An avid chamber
musician, she formed a piano trio at Yale called Trio Volante, which was
awarded the Weill Hall Début Prize at the Norfolk Chamber Music Festival in
1999. She has performed with members of the Vermeer String Quartet, Jesse
Levine and Michel Lethiec, and she has also worked with members of the Tokyo
Quartet.
Born in 1977 in Hong Kong, Tanya Bannister began her piano
studies at the age of five, and her early teachers included Gabriel Kwok at the
Hong Kong Academy of Performing Arts and Sequeira Costa in the United States. She
received her undergraduate degree from the Royal Academy of Music in London, where she studied with Christopher Elton and Hamish Milne, and while in Europe,
she also worked with Karl-Heinz Kammerling at the Mozarteum Salzburg and with
Franco Scala at the prestigious Accademia Pianistica in Imola, Italy. Most recently she received her Master of Music degree from Yale University, where she studied
with Claude Frank. She has been a participant in master classes with such eminent
pianists as Christoph Eschenbach, Peter Frankl, Lazar Berman, John O'Conor,
Barry Douglas, Alfred Brendel, Ferenc Rados, Boris Berman, Lev Naumov, and with
Richard Goode, with whom she most recently studied as one of a handful of
pianists selected by Richard Goode to work with him.
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