Kristian Chong has quickly established himself as one of Australia's leading young pianists. He has performed throughout Australia and the UK, and also in China, France, Hong Kong, Taiwan, the USA and Zimbabwe. He has appeared as a soloist with orchestras in Australia, the UK and China. His many competition successes include winning the Symphony Australia Young Performers Award (Keyboard) and the Australian National Piano Award, as well as being a major prizewinner in the 3rd Lev Vlassenko Piano Competition.
An internationally sought after chamber musician, he has performed with artists such as the Australian Chamber Soloists, the Flinders Quartet, violinist Niki Vasilakis and flautist Megan Sterling. He has also worked with pianists Yonty Solomon, Martin Roscoe and Stephen Hough.
In Australia he studied at the University of Melbourne with Stephen McIntyre, a student of Michelangi. Currently Kristian is based in London, where has just completed his Masters Degree and Postgraduate Performance Diploma at the Royal Academy of Music with pianists Christopher Elton and Piers Lane. He was a recipient of Dip. RAM the academy's highest performing accolade - the Walter MacFarren award for the best postgraduate final recital and the Dorothy Grimstead Memorial Award. He was named as the 2002 South Australian Emerging Artist of the year and has been supported in London by the Australian Music Foundation, the Ian Potter Foundation, the Wingate Foundation and the University of Melbourne.
