Vietnamese pianist Khanh Nhi Luong won Third Prize & The Lady Roslyn Lyons Bronze Medal at the Leeds International Piano Competition 2024. In the competition final, she performed Prokofiev Piano Concerto No. 3 with the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic and Domingo Hindoyan. She has also performed this work with Kenneth Kiesler and the Michigan University Symphony Orchestra in the historical concert venue, 3500 seats Hill Auditorium, Ann Arbor.

Upcoming solo engagements include Hanoi, Singapore, and London (Wigmore Hall). In summer 2025, Khanh Nhi will perform at the Sommerliche Musiktage Hitzacker festival in Germany as part of the Steinway Prizewinner Concert Series. An enthusiastic performer of new music, Khanh Nhi co-founded the Lunar New Year Piano Concert Series, showcasing music by Asian composers and advocating for cultural diversity. The upcoming 2025 tour includes concerts in the US (New York, Boston, Ann Arbor, Dexter) and Canada (London, Toronto).

Born and raised in a musical family, Khanh Nhi started playing piano at the age of four. In 2014, she was the only candidate who got chosen to study in Kunstuniversität Graz (Austria) with full scholarship, after a series of auditions which were held by the ASIA-Uninet and OeAD in the South-East Asia region. During her time in Austria, she was engaged in numerous performances throughout Europe, such as Bad Goisern (Austria), Karlsruhe (Germany) and Aarhus (Denmark).

Prior to winning Bronze Medal at the Leeds, Khanh-Nhi garnered numerous accolades, including 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 awarded her a five-concert tour across Italy, Switzerland, and the United Kingdom in 2024. Following her participation in the Telekom Beethoven Piano Competition in Bonn, Germany (2023), she was invited for a solo recital at the prestigious Mozarteum University in Salzburg, Austria, in June 2024.

Khanh Nhi obtained her Bachelor’s Degree in Piano Performance with full scholarship at the Yong Siew Toh Conservatory of Music (Singapore) and Master of Music Degree in Piano Performance and Chamber Music at the University of Michigan–where she continues to pursue her Doctoral of Musical Arts Degree. Her teachers include Lan Huong Ngo, Prof. Otto Niederdorfer, Prof. Thomas Hecht, and Prof. Christopher Harding.

After success in renowned competitions in Bonn (German Music Competition 2008), Vienna (1st prize International Beethoven Competition 2009) and Cleveland/USA (1st prize Cleveland International Piano Competition 2011), Mr. Schimpf established himself as a sought after soloist on multiple continents. Despite his meteoric international success, he shows a remarkable calm, stating: “I am in no hurry with these things; they should get to take the time they need.”

His artistic development is founded, just as his interpretations, on the aspiration of a lasting significance. In addition to his involvement with the classical repertoire, Mr. Schimpf regularly takes a stand for modern and contemporary music. Over the past several years he has been responsible for about 30 premiere performances of solo and chamber music works.

Born in Göttingen in 1981, Alexander Schimpf graduated from his studies with Wolfgang Manz and Bernd Glemser. Later on, pianists Cécile Ousset and Janina Fialkowska were important influences. Since 2009, under the labels of GENUIN and Oehms classics, three solo CDs including works by Beethoven, Schubert, Brahms, Debussy, Ravel, Scriabin, and others, were published. In 2013, Alexander Schimpf was presented with the ”Bavarian State Award for the Advancement of the Arts” in Munich.

Invitations to piano recitals and solo performances with orchestras led him to perform in numerous German cities (among them Gasteig München, Konzerthaus Berlin, Alte Oper Frankfurt, Kölner Philharmonie, NDR Hannover, Beethovenhaus Bonn, Heidelberger Frühling, Ludwigsburger Schlossfestspiele) as well as Zankel Hall/Carnegie Hall in New York City, Auditorium du Louvre and Salle Cortot in Paris, Konzerthaus Vienna, the Marinskij Concert Hall in St. Petersburg, and the Auditorio Nacional in Madrid. Radio recordings of his concerts were made for, BR, NDR, SWR, ORF, Radio France, and more.

His extensive tenure in the United States brought him work as a soloist with multiple symphony orchestras, as well as recitals in New York City, Washington D.C., Boston, Chicago, Indianapolis, among others. In addition to performances in most European countries, he performed in Asia (in countries such as Taiwan, Singapore, Vietnam, and the People’s Republic of China) as well as multiple times in South America.

As chamber musician, he collaborated with violinist Christian Tetzlaff, violist Nils Mönkemeyer, cellist Julian Steckel, baritone Thomas E. Bauer and the Armida Quartett, among many others.

In 2016 he was appointed to be professor for piano at the HMTM Hannover (Germany).