21-year-old pianist Sunny Lin Kai Zhang has performed in some of the foremost venues in the world, including New York Carnegie Hall Weill and Stern auditoriums, Steinway Hall, Benaroya Hall in Seattle, Beijing Concert Hall, Van Cliburn Concert Hall, Vancouver Queen Elizabeth Theatre, Chan Centre, and Orpheum Theatre. He has performed with the Rimsky-Korsakov String Quartet, the Grosseto Symphony Orchestra, Vancouver Opera Orchestra and the Vancouver Metropolitan Orchestra. His international achievements include First Prizes at the Seattle, Carmel Clavier in solo and concerto categories, Orbetello, and the Pacific International Piano Competition. He won top prizes at Fou Ts’ong, Steinway, San Jose, Sviatoslav Richter, Lancaster, and Enkor International Piano Competition, among others. In Canada, he won second prize in the Canadian Music Competition, First prize at Provincial Arts BC, received RCM’s Gold Medal for the highest grade in the LRCM certificate and became a Steinway Young Artist at the age of 16.
