Vietnamese pianist Khanh Nhi Luong won Third Prize & The Lady Roslyn Lyons Bronze Medal at the Leeds International Piano Competition 2024. In the competition final, she performed Prokofive Piano Concerto No. 3 with the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic and Domingo Hindoyan. She has also performed this work with Kenneth Kiesler and the Michigan University Symphony Orchestra in the historical concert venue, 3500 seats Hill Auditorium, Ann Arbor.

 

Upcoming solo engagements include Hanoi, Singapore, and London (Wigmore Hall). In summer 2025, Khanh-Nhi will perform at the Sommerliche Musiktage Hitzacker festival in Germany as part of the Steinway Prizewinner Concert Series. An enthusiastic performer of new music, Khanh-Nhi co-founded the Lunar New Year Piano Concert Series, showcasing music by Asian composers and advocating for cultural diversity. The upcoming 2025 tour includes concerts in the US (New York, Boston, Ann Arbor, Dexter) and Canada (London, Toronto).

 

Born and raised in a musical family, Khanh-Nhi started playing piano at the age of four. In 2014, she was the only candidate who got chosen to study in Kunstuniversität Graz (Austria) with full scholarship, after a series of auditions which were held by the ASIA-Uninet and OeAD in the South-East Asia region. During her time in Austria, she was engaged in numerous performances throughout Europe, such as Bad Goisern (Austria), Karlsruhe (Germany) and Aarhus (Denmark).

 

Prior to winning Bronze Medal at the Leeds, Khanh-Nhi garnered numerous accolades, including prizes at the Yong Siew Toh Concerto Competition (2017), the Lee University International Piano Competition (2021), the MTNA National Piano Competition (2023), and the Sicily International Piano Competition (2023), which awarded her a five-concert tour across Italy, Switzerland, and the United Kingdom in 2024. Following her participation in the Telekom Beethoven Piano Competition in Bonn, Germany (2023), she was invited for a solo recital at the prestigious Mozarteum University in Salzburg, Austria, in June 2024.

 

Khanh-Nhi obtained her Bachelor’s Degree in Piano Performance with full scholarship at the Yong Siew Toh Conservatory of Music (Singapore) and Master of Music Degree in Piano Performance and Chamber Music at the University of Michigan–where she continues to pursue her Doctoral of Musical Arts Degree. Her teachers include Lan Huong Ngo, Prof. Otto Niederdorfer, Prof. Thomas Hecht, and Prof. Christopher Harding.