Tiffany Poon (; born December 29, 1996) is an American classical pianist and vlogger, residing in New York City.
Career
Born in Hong Kong, Poon began taking piano lessons at the age of four. At nine, she moved to New York to study at the Juilliard School Pre-College Division for eight years with a full scholarship, under the guidance of Yoheved Kaplinsky. She studied at Calhoun School for high school, where she graduated in 2014. She continued her studies at the Columbia University / Juilliard School exchange program with Emanuel Ax and Joseph Kalichstein. In May 2018, she graduated from Columbia University as a John Jay Scholar with a Bachelor of Arts in philosophy.
Poon made her concerto debut at the age of 10, appearing with orchestras and in recital throughout the United States, Canada, Europe, Australia and China. Among the venues where she has performed are Carnegie Hall, Steinway Hall in New York City, and Sala Mozart in Bologna, Italy. She has appeared as a soloist with the Plainfield Symphony Orchestra, Fort Smith Symphony Orchestra, ProMusica Chamber Orchestra, and the Moscow Chamber Orchestra of Pavel Slobodkin Centre.
Poon has been active on social media since 2017 and expanded into video blogging when the COVID-19 pandemic ended live performances. As of December 2024, Poon's YouTube channel had 328,000 subscribers: "Of course, it took years. I only started making vlogs because I thought that classical music lacked human elements. Composers are dead and current musicians don't really talk about themselves as humans."
In 2020, Poon founded Together with Classical, a non-profit charity intended to unite people and communities by promoting classical music. It supports and funds classical music education programs and opportunities.
Awards
2012: First Prize and Best Performance of Concerto Award, 8th Moscow International Frederic Chopin Competition for Young Pianists 2013: Kaufman Music Center International Youth Piano Competition 2014: National YoungArts Winner in the United States 2014: First Prize, Juilliard Pre-College Concerto Competition 2014: Second Prize, 10th Chopin Golden Ring International Competition, Slovenia 2015: Participant of the XVII International Chopin Piano Competition in Warsaw, Poland 2016: First Prize, Manhattan International Music Competition 2016: Third Prize, 17th International Robert Schumann Competition, Germany 2016: Third Prize, “Debut at the Berlin Philharmonic Hall” International Concerto Competition 2017: Second prize, Walter W. Naumburg Foundation International Competition 2019: Second Place, KlavierOlymp of the Kissinger Sommer festival, Germany 2019: Young Artist Award, Hessen Agency at the Rheingau Music Festival. 2025: Robert Schumann Prize of the City of Zwickau 2026: Libera Awards, Best Classical Record – Nature album [Pentatone]
Discography
Natural Beauty - J.S. Bach, Haydn, Chopin, Liszt, Debussy, Kawai Edition, 2014 Edition Klavier-Festival Ruhr Vol. 38: Festivaldebüts 2019 The Dvorak Album - with Jan Vogler, Kevin Zhu, Chad Hoopes, Matthew Lipman and Juho Pohjonen, Sony Classical, 2022 Diaries | Schumann - Robert Schumann, Pentatone, 2024 Diaries: Schumann (Vinyl re-issue) - Robert Schumann, Pentatone, 2024 Nature - Daquin, Couperin, Rameau, Alkan, Fauré, Saint-Saëns, Debussy, Ravel, L. Boulanger, Pentatone, 2025
References
External links
Together with Classical website