Ernest So

{{Infobox musical artist | name = Ernest Hin-Leung So | image = | image_size = | landscape =  | alt = Ernest So performing in Hong Kong, 2012 | caption = Hong Kong, 2012 | birth_name = | native_name = 蘇顯亮 | native_name_lang = Chinese | alias = | birth_date = {{birth date and age|1978|06|01}} | birth_place = Hong Kong | origin = | death_date =  | death_place = | genre = | occupation = | instrument = piano | years_active =  | label = | website =  }}

'''Ernest Hin-Leung So''' (Chinese: 蘇顯亮; born June 1, 1978) is a Hong Kong-born pianist who specialises in the works of lesser-known classical composers such as Sergei Bortkiewicz, Leopold Godowsky, Nikolai Medtner, Jean Wiener, Déodat de Séverac, Mario Ruiz Armengol, Federico Mompou, and Anatoly Alexandrov,<ref>{{Cite web|title=Free Lunchtime Concert: Ernest So (Piano)|url=https://www.stmartin-in-the-fields.org/event/free-lunchtime-concert-ernest-piano/|access-date=2021-06-08|website=St Martin-in-the-Fields|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=Ernest So, piano Wednesday, Nov.7th at 6pm Music Gallery|url=http://www.kolarac.rs/concerts/ernest-so-piano-wednesday-nov-7th-at-6pm-music-gallery/?lang=en|access-date=2021-06-08|website=Kolarac|language=en-US}}</ref><ref name="Musica">[https://www.scmp.com/article/684586/planner Musica Espanola in HK - SCMP 23-06-2009]</ref><ref>{{cite news| title =Argentina Music| page=C5|work=HKEJ |location=Hong Kong |date=2012-03-23}}</ref><ref name="GuangxiU">{{Cite web |url=http://news.gxnu.edu.cn/newscontent.php?news_id=3069 |title=Guangxi Normal University, Ernest So Concert on 9-11-2008 |access-date=2013-08-22 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131016034420/http://news.gxnu.edu.cn/newscontent.php?news_id=3069 |archive-date=2013-10-16 |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref name="Piano">[https://www.scmp.com/article/724884/arts Piano Recital by Ernest So in HK - SCMP 16-09-2010]</ref><ref name="BKK">[https://bkkexpat.blogspot.co.uk/2012_05_01_archive.html Goethe Institut in Bangkok, Thailand, 08-05-2012]</ref><ref name="A&B">[http://www.alexanderandbuonofestival.com/faculty.asp The Alexander and Buono Festival]</ref><ref name="LO_OTRO">{{Cite web |url=http://lootro.com/solos/conciertos/ernest-so/ |title=LO OTRO |access-date=2013-08-22 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130902113409/http://lootro.com/solos/conciertos/ernest-so/ |archive-date=2013-09-02 |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref name="Brunei">{{Cite web |url=http://bruneishines.com/event_details.php?event_id=542&title=MUSIC:%20Ernest%20So%20with%20Romantic%20Piano%20Music%20from%20France,%20Brazil%20and%20Argentina&date=2012-09-14&rp_id=1533 |title=Ernest So with Romantic Piano Music in Brunei, 14-09-2012 |access-date=2013-08-22 |archive-date=2013-10-22 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131022214735/http://bruneishines.com/event_details.php?event_id=542&title=MUSIC%3A%20Ernest%20So%20with%20Romantic%20Piano%20Music%20from%20France%2C%20Brazil%20and%20Argentina&date=2012-09-14&rp_id=1533 |url-status=dead }}</ref> among many others, including world premiere recordings of works by Lucien Wurmser<ref>{{Cite web|date=2014-07-17|title=Pianist Ernest So's latest discoveries|url=https://www.factsandarts.com/index.php/music-reviews/pianist-ernest-sos-latest-discoveries|access-date=2021-06-08|website=Facts and Arts|language=en}}</ref> and Abram Chasins. So's performances usually include impromptu deliveries on the provenance and contextual background of the pieces he is playing.

== Biography == Early in his career, So won the Best Performer Award in Singapore (1995)<ref name= piano>{{Cite web |url=http://www.mditalent.com/ernest_so.html/ |title=Music & Drama Institute |access-date=2013-08-22 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100814223050/http://www.mditalent.com/ernest_so.html |archive-date=2010-08-14 |url-status=dead }}</ref> and the Beethoven Trophy (1995).<ref name="piano"/> He later attended the Manhattan School of Music and The Juilliard School in New York, where he studied under Jacob Lateiner, Solomon Mikowsky, Constance Keene, and Jonathan Feldman.<ref name="piano"/><ref name="A&B"/><ref name="LO_OTRO"/><ref name="Brunei"/><ref name="Piano Music fm Argentina">[https://archive.today/20130822040437/http://www.meetup.com/piano-68/events/82973672/ Piano Music from Argentina & Mexico in London, 22-09-2012]</ref><ref name=Music&D>{{Cite web |url=http://fujiasia.silver.yp.com.hk/index_main.php?charset=eng%2F |title=Asia Piano technical consultant and spokesman |access-date=2019-08-10 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20130822040456/http://fujiasia.silver.yp.com.hk/index_main.php?charset=eng/ |archive-date=2013-08-22 |url-status=dead }}</ref> So began touring China intensively in 2014, and has since been appointed as Honorary Professor of Music at numerous universities such as Jilin Normal University,<ref>{{Cite web|title=香港華藝國際九月头条|url=http://mp.weixin.qq.com/s?__biz=Mzg3MDAyNTAwMA==&mid=2247483675&idx=1&sn=ea590007b3c470bfcbc2afb37af50afe&chksm=ce95535cf9e2da4a94edd33866a96f81490c9d14b1646dfd5ea90d70aaff42654fa40c336b81#rd|access-date=2021-06-08|website=Weixin Official Accounts Platform}}</ref> Guangxi University and Jining University.<ref>{{Cite web|title=我校聘任国际钢琴演奏家苏显亮为名誉教授|url=https://www.jnxy.edu.cn/info/1021/9783.htm}}</ref> He serves as an Affiliated Fellow at the Morningside College of the Chinese University of Hong Kong.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Affiliated Fellows - People - About - Morningside College|url=https://www.morningside.cuhk.edu.hk/about/people/affiliated-fellows|access-date=2021-06-08|website=www.morningside.cuhk.edu.hk|language=en}}</ref> From 2009 to 2019 he served as the Chief Technical Consultant of Asia Piano Japan Co. Ltd., where he oversaw the quality control of the company's piano restoration department.<ref name="A&B"/><ref name="Music&D"/><ref name=Asia>[http://asiapianojapan.jp/home.php Asia Piano Japan Co., Ltd.] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120822014900/http://www.asiapianojapan.jp/home.php |date=2012-08-22 }}</ref><ref name=Interlude>[http://www.interlude.hk/front/in-touch-with-pianist-ernest-so-the-musical-aesthete-by-cathy-hung/ ''Interlude'' Touch with Pianist Ernest So]</ref>

When he is not performing, So devotes much of his time working with the Au Kim Hung Love & Care Association to provide charitable support for school-building and scholarship projects in impoverished areas of mainland China.<ref name = SCMP10>[https://www.scmp.com/article/730767/around-town Charity Piano Concert Dinner in HK, 22-11-2010 - SCMP 18-11-2010]</ref><ref name = Charity>[http://auditoryscenes.com/journal/?p=784 Ernest So Charity Recital Raises Funds for AKH Love & Care Association 2011]{{Dead link|date=August 2019 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref><ref name = SCMP12>[https://www.scmp.com/business/article/1088539/tamar-project-where-did-it-all-go-wrong-government-hq Ernest Charity Piano Concert in HK, South China Morning Post, 23-11-2012]</ref><ref name=Charity2012>{{Cite web |url=http://www2.akhlovecare.org.hk/?cat=5 |title=Ernest So Charity Recital Raises Funds for AKH Love & Care Association 2012 |access-date=2013-08-22 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120924051051/http://www2.akhlovecare.org.hk/?cat=5 |archive-date=2012-09-24 |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref name=Qingyuan>[https://akhlovecare.blogspot.hk/2010/05/blog-post_30.html Ernest So Visited Qingyuan China – Children's Village]</ref>

He currently lives in London.

== References == {{reflist}}

== External links == * [https://www.ernestso.com''Ernest So website''] * [https://www.akhlovecare.org.hk/ ''Au Kim Hung Love & Care Association''] * [https://music-go-round-hk.blogspot.co.uk/p/bio-ernest-so.html ''Music Go Around''] * [https://web.archive.org/web/20100814223050/http://www.mditalent.com/ernest_so.html ''<nowiki>Music & Drama Institute'</nowiki>''] * [http://www.interlude.hk/front/in-touch-with-pianist-ernest-so-the-musical-aesthete-by-cathy-hung/ ''Interlude'']

{{DEFAULTSORT:So, Ernest}} Category:1978 births Category:Living people Category:Classical pianists from Hong Kong Category:21st-century classical pianists Category:21st-century male pianists