Piano Professor at the Yehudi Menuhin School Qingdao

Professor and Graduate Student Supervisor at the Shanghai Conservatory of Music

Young Pianist

Sun Yun studied after pianist Yin Chengzong at the age of eleven, and she became the only student of Professor Zhou Guangren at the Middle School Affiliated to the Central Conservatory of Music at twelve. Sun Yun won the highest scholarship for the piano preparatory program at the Manhattan School of Music in New York and went to study in the United States when she was sixteen. She successively obtained a Bachelor's degree, a Master's degree, an Advanced Performance Diploma, and a Doctoral degree of Musical Arts. In 2024, she also received a Doctoral degree of Arts from the China Academy of Art, extending the research methods of art history to the study of music history. She has studied under Nina Svetlanova, a piano professor at the Manhattan School of Music who is from the Russian school of Neuhaus, and Robert McDonald, a professor at the Juilliard School who is from the European Schnabel school. She has deeply absorbed the essence of German and Russian schools, and has mastered scientific piano playing techniques and a comprehensive musical performance style.

Sun Yun won the first prize in piano at the 22nd International Artists Competition held in New York. She also received the grand prize at the 1995 Cincinnati World Piano Competition. Sun Yun has performed multiple times at Carnegie Hall in New York, Lincoln Center in New York, and the G-bow Concert Hall in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Since September 2002, Sun Yun has been teaching in the piano department of the Shanghai Conservatory of Music. She is currently a professor of piano and graduate supervisor. Her students have won awards in China national and international competitions many times, and several students from each class have received scholarships to continue their studies at world- renowned institutions.