Named as one of Canadian Broadcasting Corporation’s Top 30 Classical Musicians under 30, Henry From is a pianist and composer currently based in Toronto. He has appeared as soloist with the Seattle Symphony and Les Violons du Roy and has had his compositions performed by the Vancouver Symphony and the Winnipeg Symphony. He has also performed on National Public Radio’s From the Top and KING FM’s Northwest Focus Live, as well as at the Seattle Chamber Music Society and the Rockport Chamber Music Festival.
Henry’s competition successes include First Prize at the Montreal Symphony Orchestra Manulife Competition, Grand Prize and Public Choice Award at the Orford Music Award, and The Tabor Award for the most promising pianist at the Verbier Festival Academy. For his compositions, he received a Davidson Fellows Scholarship and won top prizes at CMC’s Prairie Region Emerging Composer Competition, the BMI Student Composer Competition, and the SOCAN Young Composer Competition.
Henry studied in summer programs at Morningside Music Bridge (MMB), Orford Musique, and the Verbier Festival Academy on full scholarship, where he received instruction from teachers including Andras Schiff, Klaus Hellwig, Jean-Efflam Bavouzet, Joaquin Achúcarro, André Laplante, and Piotr Paleczny. At MMB, he was a winner of the concerto competition, and formed a piano trio, Trio Savyon, which has since performed in Boston, Warsaw, and throughout Israel.
An associate composer of the Canadian Music Centre, Henry’s oeuvre amounts to 70 compositions for full orchestra, SATB choir, string quartet, piano trio, wind quintet, solo piano, solo voice, erhu, as well as various other ensembles. He has participated in the Seattle Symphony’s Merriman-Ross Family Young Composer’s program and the Winnipeg Symphony’s Young Composer’s Institute.
Henry is currently pursuing a Bachelor of Music in piano performance at the Glenn Gould School (GGS) of the Royal Conservatory of Music, in Toronto. During his first year at GGS, he was a winner of the Corcoran Concerto Competition and the two piano trios he was a memeber of won first and second prize in the GGS Chamber Music Competition. Henry was a recipient of the Ron Bresler and Erin Donohue full tuition scholarship for his first year at GGS. He was recently awarded the Ihnatowycz Prize in Piano which will fully cover tuition and living expenses for the remainder of his studies at GGS. He is deeply grateful for his current and past music teachers, which include John O’Conor, Amanda Chan, Edward Top, Kathleen Allan, and Sandra Payton.
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