Vietnamese pianist Khanh Nhi Luong won Third Prize and The Lady Roslyn Lyons Bronze Medal at the Leeds International Piano Competition 2024. Known for vivid artistry and a commanding stage presence, she is rapidly building an international profile, with a debut album forthcoming on Signum Records.
Recent and upcoming solo appearances include concerts in Interlochen (USA), Sicily (Italy), Leeds, and London’s Wigmore Hall. Passionate about new music, Khanh Nhi co-founded the Lunar New Year Piano Concert Series, celebrating Asian composers and championing cultural diversity. The series has toured across the United States (including New York, Boston, Ann Arbor and Dexter) and Canada (London and Toronto).
A dedicated collaborator, she has worked with violinists Ida Kavafian, Hye-jin Kim, Elena Urioste, Lorenz Gamma and Youjin Lee, and has performed contemporary repertoire with the ensemble Hand Werk. Orchestral engagements include performances with the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, the Ann Arbor Symphony Orchestra and the Sun Symphony Orchestra, under conductors such as Kenneth Kiesler, Domingo Hindoyan, Jayce Ogren and Jason Lai.
Born into a musical family, Khanh Nhi began piano at the age of four. In 2014, she was selected as the only candidate in a South-East Asia audition process to receive a full scholarship to study at the Kunstuniversität Graz (Austria), leading to performances across Europe including Bad Goisern, Karlsruhe and Aarhus.
Before Leeds, she received prizes at the Yong Siew Toh Concerto Competition (2017), the Lee University International Piano Competition (2021), the MTNA National Piano Competition (2023), and the Sicily International Piano Competition (2023), which included a five-concert tour across Italy, Switzerland and the UK in 2024. Following her participation in the Telekom Beethoven Piano Competition in Bonn (2023), she was invited to give a solo recital at the Mozarteum University Salzburg in June 2024.
Khanh Nhi earned her Bachelor’s degree (full scholarship) from the Yong Siew Toh Conservatory of Music (Singapore), and a Master of Music in Piano Performance and Chamber Music from the University of Michigan, where she is currently pursuing a Doctor of Musical Arts degree. Her teachers include Lan Huong Ngo, Otto Niederdorfer, Thomas Hecht, and Christopher Harding.
