{"id":80242,"date":"2022-09-23T15:38:13","date_gmt":"2022-09-23T19:38:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/?p=80242"},"modified":"2022-09-23T15:38:13","modified_gmt":"2022-09-23T19:38:13","slug":"scoop-young-pianist-donates-prize-cash-kids-charities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/2022\/09\/23\/scoop-young-pianist-donates-prize-cash-kids-charities\/","title":{"rendered":"THE SCOOP | Young Pianist Donates Prize Cash To Kids\u2019 Charities"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_80243\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-80243\" style=\"width: 1200px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-80243\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/09\/Young-Pianist-donates-prize-to-charity.jpg\" alt=\"Piano image by Piro (CC0C \/ Pixabay)\" width=\"1200\" height=\"628\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-80243\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Piano image by Piro (CC0C \/ Pixabay)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>At 12 years of age, Vancouver-born Sung Audrey is already something of a veteran of the piano competition circuit. She\u2019s been at the keyboard since the age of six, and it\u2019s something that is now central to her life.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPiano is a major aspect of my life, and it just lets all the feelings out,\u201d Sung told <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ctvnews.ca\/lifestyle\/12-year-old-award-winning-vancouver-pianist-donating-30k-to-share-music-with-other-kids-1.6078906\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CTV National News<\/a>. \u201cI just love practising in general because I always love music.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She\u2019s collected about $30,000 in prize money this year, and she is donating it to charities for other kids, split between three Canadian organizations.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I&#8217;m HIPpy assists kids living with hip disorders;<\/li>\n<li>Pacific Rim International Music &amp; Education Society;<\/li>\n<li>The Royal Conservatory.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The latter two organizations will use the donation towards music education initiatives.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI hope that the fund helps children learn more about music and give more opportunities to them,\u201d Sung said.<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Audrey Sung<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Dubbed a child prodigy, Sung has been on some of the world\u2019s prestigious concert stages, including performing at Carnegie Hall in New York City for the Pacific Rim International Music Festival at the age of nine. She\u2019s racked up an impressive string of wins and titles in Hong Kong youth piano competitions, among others. In 2019, she was awarded Grand Prize of the P. I. Tchaikovsky Memorial Award (children) at the International Music Competition for Young Pianists.<\/p>\n<p>Audrey Sung at Shanghai International Music Festival in 2019<\/p>\n<div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\"><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/yHfDPc1jMtU?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/div>\n<p>It\u2019s not the first time the young pianist has donated money and talent towards worthy causes. In 2020, she notably took part in a charity competition and concert to raise funds to fight the COVID-19 pandemic. When Hong Kong was experiencing the worst of the Omicron variant in early 2020, Audrey <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/presented\/lifestyle\/topics\/hong-kong-child-prodigy-pianist\/article\/3120206\/hong-kong-child-prodigy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">donated HK$360,000<\/a> to charities assisting the elderly and children with special needs in fighting the pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>Audrey has been studying with noted pianist and composer <strong>Liu Shikun<\/strong>, with a goal of eventually entering the Juilliard School of Music.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"western\"><em><b>#LUDWIGVAN<\/b><\/em><\/h3>\n<p class=\"western\"><em>Get the daily arts news straight to your inbox.<\/em><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"western\"><em>Sign up for the Ludwig van Daily \u2014 classical music and opera in five minutes or less <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/ludwig-van.us9.list-manage.com\/subscribe?u=4f785cb3f9058f2393ccad035&amp;id=57cdb68eac\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>HERE<\/em><\/a>.<\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At 12 years of age, Vancouver-born Sung Audrey is already a veteran of the piano competition circuit, and she&#8217;s donating her prize money to kids&#8217; charities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":64,"featured_media":80243,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[39907,5,17,39,47],"tags":[40270,2654],"yst_prominent_words":[16236,15317,7720,7781,7972,10857,29287,6616,8473,7410,7141,16319],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/09\/Young-Pianist-donates-prize-to-charity.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9bakr-kSe","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80242"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/64"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80242"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80242\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":80244,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80242\/revisions\/80244"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/80243"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80242"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=80242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}