Singaporean pianist Abigail Sin has appeared in concert halls across the globe, including Wigmore Hall, Salle Cortot and various venues in the USA, UK, Canada, France, Germany, Lithuania, Ukraine, Romania, Hong Kong and South-East Asia. She has performed with several orchestras such as the Singapore Symphony Orchestra, Singapore Festival Orchestra, Philippines Philharmonic Orchestra, Armenian State Philharmonic Orchestra, Dnepropetrovsk Phiharmonic Orchestra, Kaunas Symphony Orchestra and the London Soloists Chamber Orchestra. Abigail’s performances have been recorded and broadcast over national television and radio stations in Romania, Hong Kong, USA and Singapore.

Abigail has won a significant number of top prizes at various international piano competitions. In 2011, Abigail won the 3rd Prize, the Audience Prize and the Students’ Prize at the Lagny-sur-Marne International Piano Competition in France. Other recent accolades include the GSMD’s Romantic Piano Prize and The McCallum Prize for a pianist of promise at the Royal Over-Seas League Annual Music Competition. Abigail also won top prizes at the Viardo (USA), Krainev (Ukraine), Schimmel (USA), Virginia Waring USA), Ibiza (Spain), Individualis (Ukraine) and ASEAN Chopin competitions. In December 2009, Abigail became South-East Asia’s first Young Steinway Artist.

In 2009, Abigail was honoured at the inaugural President’s Command Performance in Singapore alongside prominent Singaporean artists such as legendary avant-garde pianist Margaret Leng Tan. Abigail has also performed at numerous state functions, including a recital at the Singapore Embassy in Washington D.C. and a state banquet at the Istana for HRH Queen Elizabeth II. She has performed for charity on several occasions, including the ChildAid concert in 2009, which raised more than a million dollars for the Straits Times School Pocket Money Fund and the Business Times Budding Artist Fund.

In 2007 and again in 2010, Abigail was one of eight pianists selected to participate in the prestigious Verbier Festival Academy in Switzerland. She has also attended masterclasses at L’Academie Musicale de Villecroze, the Banff Summer Arts Festival, the Oxford Philomusica International Piano Festival and Academy, Bowdoin International Music Festival and the International Festival of Young Musicians in Lithuania, where she was awarded a prize for “Most Outstanding Performer”. Abigail has benefitted from master classes with eminent musicians such as Leon Fleisher, Claude Frank, Dmitri Bashkirov, Murray Perahia, Menahem Pressler, Stephen Kovacevich, Emanuel Ax, Dominique Merlet, Christopher Elton, Melvyn Tan, Joseph Kalichstein and Gabor Takács-Nagy.

Abigail studied with Prof Thomas Hecht at the Yong Siew Toh Conservatory of Music, National University of Singapore. A National Arts Council scholar, she graduated with 1st Class Honours and was awarded the Lee Kuan Yew Gold Medal as the top student of her cohort. During her undergraduate studies, Abigail spent one semester as an exchange student at the Peabody Institute of the Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, USA. She was also involved in the “La Loingtaine” Project, a selective chamber music initiative organised by the Yong Siew Toh Conservatory and the Peabody Institute, culminating in a concert in October 2008, where Abigail performed Olivier Messiaen’s monumental Quartet for the End of Time.

Born in 1992, Abigail is currently a postgraduate student of Joan Havill at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. Abigail is a recipient of the National Arts Council Arts Scholarship (Overseas) 2010 and gratefully acknowledges the support of the Worshipful Company of Haberdashers, Jane Rigler & Ken Ollerton, the Leverhulme Trust and the Else & Leonard Cross Trust.