Chinese born pianist Jun Sun has showed his musical individuality and musicianship from various performing experiments and teaching experiences. Mr. Sun had successfully made appearance in notable halls around the world such as Alice Tully Hall and Peter Jay Sharp Theater in Lincoln Center, The Great Hall in Leeds, Chinese National Theater, Shanghai Concert Hall and China National Centre of the Performing Arts. Sun also was invited as a guest performer to universities such as the Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music, Transylvania University and West Virginia University.
Having made his orchestral debut with Fou T’song in 2007 with Shanghai Conservatory orchestra, Sun’s growing musicianship won him prizes such as Crescendo Music Award 2012, two special prizes in William Kapell International piano Competition, the second prize in the Young Concert Artists International Competition and also he is a laureate of the China International Piano Competition in 2010. In the Leeds International Piano Competition 2015, he received the semi-final prize. New York Concert Review hails Sun has “Unquestionable pianism” and “Unique music expression”.
Sun has also explored himself in modern art as he has given performances of the artwork Stop, Repair, Prepare: Variations on “Ode to Joy” for a Prepared Piano (2008) in MoMA at New York by artists Jennifer Allora (American, born 1974) and Guillermo Calzadilla (Cuban, born 1971) combine the mediums of performance art and sculpture.
Jun Sun received bachelor of music and master of music degree from the Juilliard School with full scholarship under Robert McDonald, also the artist diploma degree at the Manhattan School of Music with the guidance of Marc Silverman. While at Juilliard, Mr. Sun won the Brahms Piano Concerto no.1 competition which he performed it with the Juilliard Orchestra conducted and coached by Leon Fleisher. Jun Sun is a faculty member of the Zhejiang Conservatory of Music in China since 2015.