Biography
Born in Hong Kong on December 29, 1996, Tiffany Poon began piano studies at four and entered the Juilliard School’s Pre-College Division at eight, completing an eight-year program under Yoheved Kaplinsky on a full scholarship. While attending the Calhoun School on Manhattan’s Upper West Side, she earned her high-school diploma in 2014. She later participated in the Columbia University–Juilliard exchange, working with Joseph Kalichstein and Emanuel Ax, and received a bachelor’s degree in philosophy from Columbia in 2018.
During these student years Poon collected several competition honors, among them first prize and the Best Performance of a Concerto Award at the Eighth Moscow International Frederic Chopin Competition for Young Pianists in 2012. She had already appeared as a concerto soloist at ten and, in 2017, began building an online audience; three years later she established the nonprofit Together with Classical to broaden access to the repertoire and its educational resources.
The arrival of COVID-19 in early 2020 accelerated her streaming activity. By May 2021 a single platform channel had grown from 290,000 subscribers to nearly 325,000 and amassed roughly fifty million views. As live performance resumed, she returned to Carnegie Hall and Steinway Hall in New York, the Sala Mozart in Bologna, the Fort Smith Symphony in Arkansas, and the Moscow Chamber Orchestra. In the 2023–2024 season she made her debut with the Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin in a Brahms concerto. Festival engagements have included the Dresdner Musikfestspiele, the Séries Jeunes of the Tonhalle-Orchester Zürich, and the Moritzburg Festival, where she collaborated with Louis Lortie and conductor Josep Caballé Domenech.
In 2024 Poon signed with PentaTone Classics and issued her first album, Schumann: Diaries, establishing herself as an early innovator in the use of streaming platforms to cultivate new listeners for classical music.
During these student years Poon collected several competition honors, among them first prize and the Best Performance of a Concerto Award at the Eighth Moscow International Frederic Chopin Competition for Young Pianists in 2012. She had already appeared as a concerto soloist at ten and, in 2017, began building an online audience; three years later she established the nonprofit Together with Classical to broaden access to the repertoire and its educational resources.
The arrival of COVID-19 in early 2020 accelerated her streaming activity. By May 2021 a single platform channel had grown from 290,000 subscribers to nearly 325,000 and amassed roughly fifty million views. As live performance resumed, she returned to Carnegie Hall and Steinway Hall in New York, the Sala Mozart in Bologna, the Fort Smith Symphony in Arkansas, and the Moscow Chamber Orchestra. In the 2023–2024 season she made her debut with the Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin in a Brahms concerto. Festival engagements have included the Dresdner Musikfestspiele, the Séries Jeunes of the Tonhalle-Orchester Zürich, and the Moritzburg Festival, where she collaborated with Louis Lortie and conductor Josep Caballé Domenech.
In 2024 Poon signed with PentaTone Classics and issued her first album, Schumann: Diaries, establishing herself as an early innovator in the use of streaming platforms to cultivate new listeners for classical music.
Albums
Singles