Jaeden Izik-Dzurko

Winner of the 2024 Leeds International Piano Competition and recipient of the Dame Fanny Waterman Gold Medal, Jaeden Izik-Dzurko became the first Canadian Grand Prize Laureate at an instrumental edition of the Concours musical international de Montréal in May 2024. His triumphs at landmark competitions have quickly established himself as one of the most exciting and creative talents of his generation. Celebrated for his remarkable communi-cative power, artistic maturity, and refined technical command, his performances continue to captivate audiences, critics, and conductors alike with their depth and insight.

Jaeden has performed in prestigious venues and festivals worldwide, including Weill Recital Hall, the Vancouver Recital Society, and Mexico’s Festival Internacional Cervantino, as well as with major orchestras such as the Cal-gary Philharmonic, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, and Orchestre symphonique de Montréal. His play-ing has been broadcast on CBC Radio’s In Concert, WQXR’s Young Artists Showcase, American Public Media’s Performance Today, BBC Radio 3, BBC4 TV and medici.tv.

This season’s performances include appearances with the Edmonton Symphony, Oxford Philharmonic, Real Or-questa Sinfónica de Sevilla, Bilbao Orkestra Sinfonikoa, Orquesta Ciudad de Granada, Orquesta Sinfónica de Ten-erife, International Chopin Festival in Duszniki-Zdrój, Krannert Center for the Performing Arts at Illinois, St. George’s Bristol, and Fondation Louis Vuitton.

Jaeden has won several prestigious awards, including First Prize, the Canon Audience Prize, and the Chamber Mu-sic Award at the 20th Paloma O’Shea Santander International Piano Competition, First Prize at both the 2022 Maria Canals International Music Competition and the 2022 Hilton Head International Piano Competition. In March 2024, he was awarded a Borletti-Buitoni Trust Fellowship.

As a result of his successful competition wins Jaeden has made recordings for the Steinway & Sons label and Naxos which are expected to be released in 2025. He will make an additional recording for Steinway & Sons as part of his Concours musical international de Montréal prize and select performances from the second and semi-final rounds of the Leeds International Piano Competition will be released as an EP by Warner Classics on Octo-ber 10, 2024, with a studio recording in the future.

A thoughtful interpreter of Canadian composers’ works, he received the Award for the Best performance of an imposed Canadian work at the Concours musical international de Montréal and has recorded Ernst Schneider’s Romantic Piano Concerto with the Okanagan Symphony Orchestra (Canadian Soundscapes). Recently he gave the world premiere of Somnis Radiants (Radiant Dreams, 2022) by Spanish composer Elisenda Fábregas at the Klavier-Festival Ruhr.

Born in Salmon Arm, British Columbia, Jaeden earned his Bachelor of Music degree at The Juilliard School under Yoheved Kaplinsky and his Master of Music degree at the University of British Columbia with Corey Hamm. He is also a former student of Ian Parker. Currently, he studies with Jacob Leuschner at the Hochschule für Musik Detmold and Benedetto Lupo at the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia.