| David Tong |
 David Tong - Pianist David Tong was born in 1983 in Macao and came to live in Australia in 1988, where he studied with Nehama Patkin and Stephen McIntyre. At the age of twelve he won the National Keyboard Final of the Symphony Australia Young Performers Award. He was featured soloist with the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra in May 2002, and in September of that year moved to New York to take up a valuable scholarship at The Juilliard School. In 2003 he performed with the Sydney Symphony Orchestra and gave two concerto performances with the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra, to great critical acclaim. In September 2003 he was soloist with the Matav Hungarian Symphony Orchestra in Budapest. Tong is a regular guest with the Sydney Symphony Orchestra and performed at the 2001 Sydney Festival to an audience of 120,000. In 2004 he became the inaugural recipient of a $15,000 Harold Mitchell Foundation Fellowship. In 2005 he appeared in concert with the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra and in recital at Government House, Melbourne Australia. Earlier this year, he toured Australia with twin cellists, Pei-Jee Ng and Pei-Sian Ng, performing the Rachmaninov and Chopin cello sonatas to much acclaim. Tong has performed as a recitalist and concerto soloist with major orchestras in New York, Australia, New Zealand and China. |