Rebekah Yinuo Tan was born in Shanghai, where she started formal piano training at the age of seven and a half. Currently she studies with Helen Krizos at Chetham‘s School of Music (United Kingdom). After her first solo recital in 2019 at The Bridge in Shanghai, she gave her concerto debut at the age of 13. In 2022, she performed Prokofiev’s 3rd Piano Concerto under the baton of Jonathan Bloxham with the Chetham’s Symphony Orchestra in Stoller Hall.
Rebekah has performed in multiple venues across the United Kingdom and abroad, such as St. Martin-in-the-Fields, Sidney Sussex College (Cambridge), Legnica Art Centre and the Shanghai Oriental Art Centre. She has received guidance in either a master class or lesson setting, such as the SIMA Classics Masterclasses, from many notable musicians, including Boris Berman, Christopher Elton, Freddy Kempf, Kathryn Scott, Piotr Paleczny, Stephen Hough, Steven Osborne.
Competition successes include winning first prize in the EPTA UK 12-and-under (2018) and 15-and-under (2019) and the Gold Hand Prize in the Carles and Sofia Piano Competition in the Emergent Class ages 17-21 (2021). In 2020 she was the winner of the Chetham’s Sinfonia Concerto Competition and Chetham’s CSO Concerto Competition.
Along with her solo and concerto performances, Rebekah is also an enthusiastic chamber music player, and has accompanied various vocalists and choral ensembles.
REPERTOIRE
Round I
Bach Prelude and Fugue No. 20 in A minor, BWV 865/WTC I
Chopin Ballade No. 4 in F minor, Op. 52
Messiaen Catalogue d’oiseaux : No. 2, Le loriot
Round II
Beethoven Sonata No. 23 in F minor, Appassionata, Op. 57
Liszt Transcendental Etude No. 10 in F minor, Appassionata, S. 139
Round III
Prokofiev Concerto No. 3 in C Major, Op. 26