![]() ![]() The top PSLE student in MGS, she also topped her Secondary 1 cohort in the school. She also fulfilled her early intellectual promise. Making her US debut with the Lamont Symphony Orchestra at the University of Denver on her 13th birthday, she has since played in London's Wigmore Hall and with the BBC Symphony Orchestra. At 14, she toured Eastern Europe, playing in places such as Lithuania and Ukraine, where she won an international piano competition. She gathered numerous accolades at piano competitions across Asia, Europe and the United States. ![]() At about 18, she became the first South-east Asian musician to be named a Young Steinway Artist. The accolades, awards and international prizes have been rolling in since.Īt 11, she won an HSBC Youth Excellence Award and spent about half of the $200,000 prize money on a piano by renowned piano-maker Steinway. When she was 10, Time magazine called her a "bona fide prodigy". Sin's talent was soon internationally recognised. Usually, children at that age would play how their teacher taught them," says Wang. "She was quite shy and quiet, but from our conversation, I could sense she was very mature and had strong ideas about how she wanted to play a sonata, how she wanted to express her work. The couple organised her first concert, getting her performance recorded on a CD that they distributed to friends, family and well-wishers.Ĭonductor Wang Ya-Hui first met Sin around that time, when she was a pupil at Methodist Girls' School (MGS). Her piano teacher at the time thought it was a good idea as Sin enjoyed performing, recalls Madam Tan, and she and her husband agreed.
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