Benjamin Au

Name:	Benjamin Au
Location:	Sydney Australia 2000
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Additional Info:

Benjamin was born in 1987 and had his first piano lesson at the age of five, and enrolled in the Junior Programme of the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts in the following year. He won numerous prizes and honours at many competitions, including the first prize winner of the HKPOC Rachmaninoff section in 2007, and the 2nd runner-up of the senior class of the Asian youth music competition 2009, in 2011, he was the champion of the concerto section of the Sydney Eisteddfod competition, etc. Besides participating in competitions, he is also a keen student on chamber music and historical music performance. He had been studying Fortepiano under Dr Shane Levesque and Baroque ensemble under the Dean of Music, Benedict Cruft in HKAPA from 2008- 2010.

He is a Graduate of both Diploma Programme and Bachelor of Music (Honours) at the HKAPA, and has been studying piano with Raymond Young since 2001. From 2011, he furthered his study in the Sydney Conservatorium of Music under the guidance of Professor Gerard Williems supported by the Molly McAulay memorial Scholarship.

Additional Specialisms:

Orchestral Playing, Session Work, Solo Performance