Final Round Repertoire
- ANTONÍN DVORˇÁK Cello Concerto in B minor, Op. 104, B. 191
- I. Allegro
- II. Adagio ma non troppo
- III. Finale: Allegro moderato
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Bryan Cheng has secured a distinctive place in the world of classical music. He made his solo debut at age 10 with the Orchestre de chambre I Musici de Montréal, his Carnegie Hall recital debut at 14, and his Elbphilharmonie debut in 2018 with the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen. Bryan Cheng is the winner of the 2019 Grand Prize at the Orchestre symphonique de Montréal Competition and the first-ever Canadian laureate at the prestigious International Paulo Cello Competition 2018.
Solo highlights of recent and upcoming seasons include appearances with the National Arts Centre Orchestra, Orchestre symphonique de Montréal, Orquesta Sinfónica Nacional de Panamá, Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra, Tapiola Sinfonietta, and Südwestdeutsches Kammerorchester Pforzheim, as well as the Okanagan, Springfield, Adelphi, Niagara, Nova Scotia, Newfoundland, Lahti, and Schleswig-Holstein symphonies; a coast-to-coast Canadian tour with the National Youth Orchestra of Canada as 2017 Canada Council for the Arts Michael Measures Prize winner; and a summer 2020 residency with the Orchestra of the Americas, collaborating with such esteemed conductors as Matthias Pintscher, Susanna Mälkki, Peter Oundjian, Joshua Weilerstein, and Jonathan Darlington.
As cellist of the Cheng² Duo and chamber musician, Bryan performs in recital across the globe—the 2019/20 season has taken him to Los Angeles, New York, Vancouver, Ottawa, and Montréal’s Salle Bourgie, a European tour of the Duo’s Beethoven 2020 project, Ludwig & Beyond, and to Russia’s Trans-Siberian Art Festival, Germany’s Kammermusikfestival Spannungen, Italy’s Trasimeno Festival, and Québec’s Orford Musique, among others. He has released a trilogy of albums on German label audite that has been critically-acclaimed in a dozen countries: Russian Legends (2019), Violonchelo del fuego (2018), and Violoncelle français (2016).
Bryan currently studies at the Universität der Künste Berlin with Jens Peter Maintz. He plays the ca. 1696 Bonjour Stradivari cello and ca. 1830 Shaw Adam bow, generously on loan from the Canada Council Musical Instrument Bank as First Laureate of their 2018 Competition.
