SHORT BIOGRAPHY
Praised for his “ravishing and simply gorgeous” performances by The Washington Post, pianist David Fung brings an expansive imagination to the concerto and recital stage, combining a deep engagement with the core repertoire with a restless curiosity for music in all its forms. His artistic vision is rooted in the ancient Greek orchestra, the “place of dancing”—an idea of performance as an act of moving together. Across the concerto, chamber, and solo stages, Mr. Fung sees performance as an act of shared presence, animated by the interplay of listening, response, and expression among performers and audience alike.
With a repertoire spanning more than seventy concertos, Mr. Fung regularly appears with many of the world’s leading orchestras, including The Cleveland Orchestra, Detroit Symphony Orchestra, Israel Philharmonic Orchestra, Los Angeles Philharmonic, and San Francisco Symphony, working with conductors such as Marin Alsop and Gustavo Dudamel. He has also collaborated with the Baltimore, Melbourne, Orpheus, and Saint Paul Chamber Orchestras, as well as the Orchestra of St. Luke’s.
His longstanding interest in expanding the musical conversation has been noted by The Washington Post, which singled out his “canny” programming. His repertoire encompasses the central works of Mozart, Bach, Beethoven, and Rachmaninoff alongside music by composers whose voices have been less frequently heard on the concert stage. In 2025, he gave the first major U.S. performance of Grażyna Bacewicz’s Piano Concerto (1949) with the California Symphony and Donato Cabrera; in 2026, he premiered Patrick Carrabré’s Piano Concerto: A Guest on These Lands (2024). He previously gave the West Coast premiere of Chen Qigang’s Piano Concerto: Er Huang with the San Francisco Symphony.
As a recitalist and chamber musician, Mr. Fung has appeared at distinguished festivals and venues including Aspen, Caramoor, Edinburgh, Ravinia, Tippet Rise, Carnegie Hall, the Kennedy Center, Lincoln Center, the Louvre, Gewandhaus, and Zürich Tonhalle. His chamber music collaborators include the Brentano, Dover, Jupiter, and Verona Quartets.
More than a dozen acclaimed recordings feature Mr. Fung’s playing, released by ATMA, Genuin, Métier, Orchid, Pentatone, Naxos, and Yarlung. Steinway & Sons released his Transcendent Beethoven in 2020, featured on Apple Music’s Best of Beethoven, following the label’s acclaimed 2019 release of the first installment of his complete Mozart sonatas.
The first piano graduate of the Colburn Conservatory in Los Angeles, Mr. Fung studied with John Perry before continuing his studies with Peter Frankl and Claude Frank at Yale University and Arie Vardi at the Hochschule für Musik, Theater und Medien Hannover. He has also received artistic guidance from András Schiff, Alfred Brendel, and Leon Fleisher. Making his home in Vancouver and New York City, he serves on the faculties of the Manhattan School of Music and the University of British Columbia and is a curator at the Chan Centre for the Performing Arts. He is a Steinway Artist.
Mr. Fung is represented in Australia and New Zealand by Cinque Artist Management, and in China, Hong Kong and Taiwan by QLHW Management Ltd.
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