Rizzo
Chung

Biography

Rizzo Chung, principal of the notable music school GMC Music and founder and director of the GMC Foundation in Hong Kong, has over 20 years of experience in music education. She is passionately devoted to nurturing young musicians in their teenage years for a music career. Subsequently, she founded the GMC Foundation Scholarship to encourage young musicians to strive for more opportunities to broaden their horizons on the international stage.

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Ms. Chung holds a Bachelor (Honours) of Music from Kingston University, UK, and a Licentiate Diploma from the ABRSM and Trinity College of London in both piano performance and piano pedagogy. Throughout her career, she has dedicated herself to studying and exploring piano pedagogical methods from various schools. As a result, many of her students are prize winners of local and international competitions, the most notable of which was the Steinway and Sons National (China) Youth Piano Competition First Prize and the Special Prize for three consecutive editions; gold medalists of several editions in Japan International Chopin Piano Competition; Grand Prix of Piara Piano Competition Hamamatsu Japan; the winners of Zhuhai International Mozart Competition for Young Musicians and Professional Youth Group in Shenzhen Piano Open Competition; also a winner of Ettlingen International Piano Competition in Germany; George Enescu International Competition in Romania.

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Besides, her students are regularly invited to participate in top professional international competitions and festivals, such as the 2nd Van Cliburn Junior International Piano Competition in Dallas and the E-Competition Junior in Minnesota, Hilton Head International Piano Competition in the US, and the Aarhus International Piano Competition in Demark. Students have successfully advanced to the semifinals.

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Moreover, her four students are selected as the Young Scholars of the Lang Lang International Music Foundation in the US from 2017 to 2025 respectively.

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Ms. Chung is also dedicated to training musical pedagogues and scholars. Throughout her career, her students have been accepted to notable music institutions around the world, including the Royal College of Music, Royal Academy of Music, New England Conservatory, Eastman School of Music, Obelin Conservatory of Music, Clevland Institute of Music, and Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts.

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Besides individual contact with her students, Ms Chung regularly hosts pedagogical training programs and workshops, sharing her teaching experience with other teachers on topics such as ABRSM exam repertoire preparation and analysis and workshops on preparations for overseas competitions. She set up an online concert platform for classical music with no borders, “Soireé Musique”, for young musicians to share their music with audiences worldwide.