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Shuan Hern Lee, one of our talented AMEB candidates, has achieved further success, winning the US$5000 Laureate prize (Outstanding and Greatest Achievement Prize) at the Sberbank Debut International Music Competition and Festival in Ukraine in November. His father, AMEB examiner Yoon Sen Lee, received the US$1000 Best Teacher Award.

The competition was for pianists under 14 years of age and more than one hundred applicants sent audition videos to the adjudicators. Shuan Hern, 11 years old, was one of only fifteen (and the only one from Australia) to be selected and flown to Ukraine to perform at the Tchaikovsky National Music Academy in Kiev. The other competitors came from Ukraine, Russia, Canada, Switzerland, Georgia and Uzbekistan.

In the first round, Shuan Hern's solo performance consisted of Mozart Sonata K311 (first movement), Chopin Barcarolle Op. 60, Lysenko Impromptu and Shuan Hern's own composition, Horses in the Wild . For the second round, he performed the Grieg Piano Concerto (first movement), accompanied by the National Symphonic Orchestra of Ukraine, which was extremely well received by the full house audience.

Following the competition in Ukraine, Shuan Hern travelled to Moscow to perform in a concert for the Crescendo Music Festival with the Moscow State Symphony Orchestra. We wish Shuan Hern all the best for his endeavours.

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Lindsay Roberts (Australian Music Examinations Board)  (+61 8) 6488 3059