Sherri Lun

Named ‘2020 Performing Artist of the Year’ by South China Morning Post as part of the Student of the Year awards, 20-year-old Sherri Lun majored in piano and viola as a junior student of the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts. She is currently studying with Prof. Christopher Elton at the Royal Academy of Music with a full scholarship supported by the Academy and the Hong Kong Scholarship for Excellence Scheme. 

Sherri’s talent has been recognized in multiple international competitions including the Robert Schumann Competition (Düsseldorf), Zhuhai Mozart, ASEAN Chopin, Singapore Int’l, Steinway & Sons Youth (China), Xinghai Cup, and Chopin International Piano Competition in ASIA (Japan). In 2022, she won the “Victory Award” at the Carles & Sofia International Piano Competition. Only in her second year, she has won both the 2022 Sterndale Bennett Piano Prize and 2023 Chung Nung Lee Prize at the Royal Academy of Music. In Hong Kong, she is a winner of numerous local competitions, and her performance has been broadcasted by the Radio Television Hong Kong. She was awarded Highest Scorer of the Year from Trinity College London for her licentiate diploma piano recital in 2017.  

At age 10, Sherri was selected as a Young Scholar of the Lang Lang International Music Foundation. Following her concerto debut with the Midwest Young Artists at Ravinia Festival in 2013, she has collaborated with the Salzburg Chamber Soloists, the Hong Kong Youth Orchestra, and the Kölner Kammerorchester. Sherri’s performances have graced prestigious venues such as Wigmore Hall London, Fondation Louis Vuitton Paris, and Millenium Park Chicago, across countries such as the UK, US, France, Germany, Austria, Malaysia, and China. Her passion for music also led her to participate in festivals including Oxford Piano Festival, Pianale International Piano Academy, Frost Chopin Academy, Beijing International Music Festival, and the International Summer Academy at Universitat Mozarteum Salzburg, where she was selected to perform in Wienner Saal of Stiftung Mozarteum.  

Having achieved distinction in her LTCL viola recital, Sherri served as principal violist in the HKAPA Junior Symphony Orchestra. As an active chamber musician, she regularly works with the Adatto Piano Quartet and with orchestras as a violist. 

“…tackling the bruising finale with pinpoint clarity and convincing bravura, while the lighter moments danced with an impish joy that brought the audience to their feet after the final bars.” – Chicago Tribune for Liszt Piano Concerto Performance with Midwest Young Artists in 2015