RMT Members Branch Calendar
2023 Young Artist Concert Tour with Edward Duan
As part of this year's Young Artist Concert Tour, the Vancouver/Burnaby Branch is pleased to host an in-person recital by the 2022 BC Piano Competition winner, Edward Duan. Edward will be representing BC at the upcoming National Piano Competition taking place this July 2023 in Edmonton, Alberta.

 

The event is free to attend and is open to all (branch & non-branch members). Please invite your music loving students and their families, colleagues, family and friends to this concert. We would love to see them there!

 

All we ask is that they RSVP here to help us plan for numbers. Thank you.

What:    Young Artist Concert Tour with Edward Duan
When:   Sunday, April 30, 2023
Venue:   Immanuel Baptist Church
109 East 40th Avenue, Vancouver, V5W 1L6 (MAP)
Concert:            4:30-5:15pm
Meet the Artist:  5:15-5:30pm
Questions for Edward?
Do you have any questions that you would like to ask Edward? If so, please submit your questions in advance on this form (see below). We will try our best to have all submitted questions asked during the "Meet the Artist" portion of the concert. 
Last day for submitting your questions is April 21, 2023. Thank you.

 

Biography

Sixteen year old Edward Duan was born in Vancouver and began studying the piano at the age of four.  He has won many top prizes in local competitions including the Kiwanis, Guild, and Richmond Music Festivals.  At the 2018 BC Conservatory Music Festival he was awarded a $400 scholarship for Overall Best Performer.  He was the recipient of the Provincial Gold Medal for the highest mark in the Province for both his Grade 8 and Grade 9 Royal Conservatory of Music Piano Exams. Last year, Edward completed his ARCT Diploma Exam, receiving a mark of First Class Honours with Distinction and again was awarded the Gold Medal for the highest mark in the province.

In October of 2018 Edward appeared as soloist with the Vancouver Academy of Music Orchestra in the Orpheum Theatre as winner of their concerto competition.  As First Place Winner in the Crescendo International Music Competition, he performed in Carnegie Hall’s newest venue, Zankel Hall, in New York City in March 2022.  In September, he won First Prize in the BC Registered Music Teachers’ Association Piano Competition. As a result he will be giving a series of recitals around the province which includes today's performance.

Also, last July Edward was accepted into the Oxbridge Academic Programs which enabled him to study engineering and astronomy at Oxford University in England.

For the past six years, he has been a student of Ralph Markham and Kenneth Broadway.

 

Program

Sonata in C Major, Hob. XVI:48                      Joseph Haydn

I.  Andante con espressione

II.  Rondo:Presto

 

Etude in C sharp minor, Op. 2, No. 1              Alexander Scriabin

Etude in D sharp minor, Op. 8, No. 12

 

Sonata No. 4 in F sharp Major, Op. 30           Alexander Scriabin

I. Andante

II. Prestissimo volando

 

Nocturne in E Major, Op. 62, No. 2                 Frédéric Chopin

 

Dante Sonata                                                  Franz Liszt

(Après une lecture du Dante: Fantasia quasi Sonata)