Rod Yu 余啟智

Rod Yu is a pianist who takes up different roles in orchestral, opera, chamber music and vocal piano accompanying. He was invited to perform with Hong Kong Chamber Orchestra, Collegium Musicum Hong Kong, Guildhall New Music Ensemble, Hong Kong New Music Ensemble and HKBDA Wind Orchestra. He has also performed in international music festivals in the Netherlands, United Kingdom, Canada, Austria and Hong Kong. His performance of Brett Dean’s Wolf-Lieder (2006) has been broadcasted in the BBC Radio 3 in London. He is currently Young Artist-in-Resident of Shantou Xiangyuan Piano Museum and the pianist of the TimeCrafters.

Yu completed his master’s degree with Distinction with the support of Leverhulme Trust at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama and Bachelor’s Degree at the Hong Kong Baptist University, studying under Caroline Palmer, Graham Johnson, Gordon Back, Pamela Lidiard and Norman Lee. He has also trained as a conductor under Sian Edwards, former English National Opera Music Director in London. He has received the Scotiabank scholarship to be the Art of Song Fellow during the 2013 Toronto Summer Music Festival, where he received coaching from Elly Ameling, Julius Drake and Michael McMahon. Yu was trained as a lieder coach by Konrad Jarnot and Christoph Berner during the 2014 Internationale Sommerakademie in Universität Mozarteum Salzburg.

余啟智是一位於不同的崗位皆表現出色的鋼琴家，活躍於管弦樂團、歌劇、室內樂與他最擅長的聲樂伴奏。他經常獲邀與不同樂團合作演出，包括香港室樂團、巴羅克室樂團、倫敦市政廳當代樂團、香港創樂團和香港管樂協會導師管樂團等。他曾在荷蘭、英國、加拿大、奧地利和香港的國際音樂節上演出，他的演出亦曾於倫敦BBC第3台播出。余啟智為廣東汕頭香園博物館年青藝術家及本地古典室樂組 － 時・刻室樂主要成員。

余啟智在Caroline Palmer、Graham Johnson、Gordon Back及Pamela Lidiard的指導下於倫敦市政廳音樂和戲劇學院完成碩士學位，並於薩爾茨堡莫扎特大學接受過Konrad Jarnot與Christoph Berner的藝術歌曲指導訓練。余啟智曾為多倫多夏季音樂節加拿大豐業銀行獎學金得獎鋼琴家，並接受Elly Ameling、Julius Drake及Michael McmMahon的指導。除了鋼琴演奏及歌曲指導外，他還曾在倫敦於前英國國家歌劇院音樂總監Sian Edwards下接受管弦樂及歌劇指揮藝術訓練。