Rudin Lengo

Rudin Lengo’s piano playing has been described as “profound, imaginative and exceptionally communicative”. Winner of the 2012 Glenn Gould School Concerto Competition, the 5th Knigge Music Competition and the 2010 TD Elora Competition, he was also the 2nd prize winner at the 40th William C. Byrd International Competition and winner of the Mary Winston Smail Memorial Award for Best Pianist at the 2011 WAMSO Minnesota Competition, the London Kiwanis Festival’s Rose Bowl, UWO London Music Scholarship Foundation, as well as the Grand Prize at the Rotary Music Festival in Burlington. In the past two seasons, Mr. Lengo has appeared as a soloist with the West Coast Symphony, Deep River Symphony, Toruń Symphony, Greater Toronto Philharmonic, Royal Conservatory Orchestra, and Orchestra London. Recital engagements have included performances at the Vredenburg Leeuwenbergh (Utrecht, Holland), White Rock Theatre (Hastings, UK), Great Hall of the University of the Arts (Tiranë, Albania), Bergen Ruïnekerk and Slot Schagen (Holland), Roy Barnett Recital Hall (Vancouver), Steinway Hall (New York), Minnesota Orchestra Hall (Minneapolis), St. Sophia Church (Ohrid, Macedonia), Yamaha Hall (New York), Salle GillesLefebvre (Orford, Quebec) and the Richard Bradshaw Amphitheatre (Toronto). Rudin Lengo began his piano studies at the “Servete Maçi” School of Music in Tiranë, Albania, with Nedi Peku as his principal teacher. After immigrating to Canada, he continued his studies under the guidance of James Anagnoson. In 2008, he completed a Bachelor’s Degree in Piano Performance at Western University on a National Scholarship, studying with James Anagnoson and Leslie Kinton. He received his Master’s Degree in 2010 from the Manhattan School of Music on a President’s Award studying with the esteemed pianist and pedagogue, Daniel Epstein. As a student of John Perry and David Louie, Rudin recently completed an Artist Diploma at the Glenn Gould School on a prestigious Ihnatowycz Emerging Artist Scholarship.