Tiffany Poon - Chopin Etude Op.10 No.4

Tiffany Poon's debut album on @Pentatonemusic "Diaries: Schumann" out on February 9, 2024

Recorded on October 6, 2017

Tiffany on Social Media:

[jim_ginge]

If you play this back at 0.75 speed, you can hear each and every note and just how perfect the volume and sustain of each note is held. This isn't just music, this is art in its purest form.

[cluckcluck]

People say flight of the bumblebee is hard.

Chopin: PFFFT!!!

[xinyuanzhou]

For those who don't play piano, it's flashy and awesome. But for me who has been practicing piano (and trying to get into Julliard as a professional piano performer), I know the amount of seriously rigorous and many bored hours that must be spent working on the middle section, as well as the last right hand ending... Tiffany you are a star, and I aspire to one day play as well as you! (Currently learning this etude no 4 right now, and it's driving me nuts!)

edit: (2021.6.20)

I was definitely not expecting so many comments and likes here... Sorry for not responding earlier to all of you amazing ppl!

So 2 years later, I currently just completed sophomore year at Manhattan School of Music (I ended up just applying to MSM not Juilliard), classical piano major. During my freshman year I went to the Columbia Uni grounds often and walked just where Tiffany used to be it was unreal. At MSM we get Columbia Uni professors for our humanities electives, we are very fortunate.

Due to Covid I retreated back to my hometown in China for the past year with online lessons, and as I type I have been at an excellent internship at the Tianjin Juilliard School (the first and only overseas Juilliard branch in the world, opened 2 years ago). I'm sitting in a TJS practice room right now and practicing Chopin etude op 10 no 2 and no 10 and no 11, as well as a contemporary piece "toccata" by Peter Mennin. A Shostakovich concerto as welll...

I guess all there is left to say is thank you to Tiffany her videos have inspired me to work hard in the roughest times when I auditioned in New York. Wishing her and all the musicians out there all the best!

Edit: (2022 November 17)
In my senior year bachelors at Manhattan school of music, putting together a recital and stressing lots about some of the work I have to do. Again, coming back to this comment is crazy, so much time has passed, and yet I still remember the day in music class when I first saw Tiffany’s video in high school. I hope I could meet her one day, and really thank her for everything she’s inspired me to go for! (I also need to get a few practicing tips from her too…) time flies. (Btw I just noticed how pretentious my previous edit was, what a prick haha)

[forbidinjustice]

Listen to that articulation! Absolutely perfect. Bravo, Tiffany!

[puffball]

All piano composers: Should the melody be left or right hand?

Chopin: Yes.

[secretmission]

This wasn't just fast, this was musically brilliant.

[Axel]

I can’t even play the wrong notes that fast

[shawnmand]

What impresses me the most is her posture.

[vonteflon]

Why is it that on all virtuoso piano renditions on youtube, there's always some arsehole in the comments claiming the video's been sped up or otherwise manipulated? I remember watching one once where the performer had got so fed up with it that she had a massive MickyMouse alarm clock on top of the piano to prove that it was played/recorded in real time. Ridiculous that she had to go to such lengths to appease some silly, jealous, pathetic scumbags.

[miffybubbles]

I can finish my homework with this video speedily!!!

[부부젤라-tw]

This is the best rendition in terms of dynamics imo. I love how she pays discreet attention to the piano parts so that the escalation to fff at the end has maximum impact. What a wonderful performance.

[keysersoze]

Your level of concentration is ABSOULTY AMAZING! I started taking lessons last year I'm 64. I watch your videos and when you talk you're a sweet innocent girl, but when you play a maturity flows out of you and you look like a different person. I appreciate the very hard work and dedication you have to be the best, and you are!
Thank you for the great music....Keith

[saikato]

This is the best performance of this piece that exists anywhere on the internet. It's just on a such level of performance, it really is a different league compared to most people playing it.

[thomaschitmingchung]

When you are so good at chopin ppl think the video is SPED UP HAHAHHAAAHHAHA you're awesome Tiffany!!

[jordiac]

I dont get tired of listening to this, usually people play this piece so fast and clean, which is technically correct but they way Tiffany plays is in another level, all the phrasing, all the notes so clear and the ending is the best one so far, so damn epic

[DerekLowePianist]

The absolute BEST interpretation of this Etude, or any Etude, for that matter - literally took my breath away and I simply can't grasp the perfection and excellence of this recording. Bravissimo!

[Mukundanghri]

I am speechless. You are fortunate to have had a family to provide you with so much support. Such a beautiful soul.

[Aquifilia]

I think this is the best recording of this piece on YouTube

[Windycityduelingpianos]

I have a feeling this is another one of those 2 minute pieces that is 20 pages long.

[sisleyleo]

i can't stop replaying this over and over