Singaporean pianist Abigail Sin has appeared in concert venues across the globe, including various cities in the USA and the UK, France, Romania, Bangkok, Kuala Lumpur, Manila, Hong Kong and Singapore. These engagements include a seven-concert tour of Ukraine, Lithuania and Germany in May 2006. Abigail’s performances have been recorded and broadcast over national television and radio stations in Romania, Hong Kong, USA and Singapore.

Abigail has performed with various orchestras including the Singapore Symphony Orchestra, Singapore Festival Orchestra, Kaunas Symphony Orchestra, Dnipropetrovsk Philharmonic Orchestra, Lamont Symphony Orchestra and the London Soloists’ Chamber Orchestra. Notable performances include the Singapore premiere of Rodion Shchedrin’s Piano Concerto No. 1 at the Singapore Arts Festival and performances of the Liszt Piano Concerto No. 2 with the Singapore Symphony Orchestra and the Philippines Philharmonic Orchestra.

Abigail has won a significant number of first or second prizes at various international piano competitions. These include the Viardo (USA), Krainev (Ukraine), Schimmel (USA), Virginia Waring (USA), Ibiza (Spain), Individualis (Ukraine) and ASEAN Chopin competitions competitions. Earlier in her studies, Abigail was awarded the HSBC Youth Excellence Award for Musical Excellence.

In May 2009, Abigail was honoured at the inaugural President’s Command Performance at the Esplanade Theatre alongside prominent Singaporean artists such as legendary avant-garde pianist Margaret Leng Tan. Abigail has also performed at numerous state functions, including a performance 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 recent ChildAid concert in December 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 worldwide selected to participate in the prestigious Verbier Festival Academy in Switzerland. She has also attended the Banff Summer Arts Festival in Canada, the 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, Murray Perahia, Emanuel Ax, Dmitri Alexeev, Earl Wild, Melvyn Tan, Robert Mcdonald, Joseph Kalichstein, David Takeno and Gabor Takács-Nagy.

During the fall semester of 2007, Abigail was an exchange student at the Peabody Institute of the Johns Hopkins University, where she completed the semester on the Dean’s List with high honours. The following year, she was involved in the “La Loingtaine” Project, a selective chamber music initiative organised by the Yong Siew Toh Conservatory and the Peabody Institute, with performances in France and Cambridge, UK. This project culminated in a concert in Singapore in October 2008, where Abigail performed Olivier Messiaen’s monumental Quatuor pour la fin du temps.

Now eighteen years old, Abigail has recently graduated with 1st Class Honours from the Bachelor of Music program at the Yong Siew Toh Conservatory of Music, National University of Singapore, where she studies with Prof Thomas Hecht. A National Arts Council scholar, Abigail was awarded the Lee Kuan Yew Gold Medal as the top student of the graduating class.

In September 2010, Abigail will commence her postgraduate studies with Professor Joan Havill at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama on a full scholarship.

Abigail Sin is a Young Steinway Artist.