Henry From

Henry From is a pianist and composer who is currently studying with John O’Conor at The Glenn Gould School in Toronto, where he is the recipient of the Ihnatowycz Prize in Piano. He previously studied with Amanda Chan and Edward Top at the Vancouver Academy of Music.

Mr. From was named by the CBC to be among its Top 30 Musicians Under 30 in 2019. Other honours include a first prize in the 2018 Montréal Symphony Orchestra Manulife Competition, the Tabor Award at the Verbier Festival in 2021, Grand Prize and Public Choice Award at the Orford Music Award in 2022, and a Davidson Fellow Scholarship in 2022. As a composer, he has received top prizes from the SOCAN Young Composer Awards, BMI Student Composer Competition, and the Canadian Music Centre’s Prairie Region Composer Competition. Mr. From is an Associate Composer of the Canadian Music Centre.

Recent performance highlights include soloist appearances with the Seattle Symphony and the Royal Conservatory Orchestra, recitals at the Verbier Festival in Switzerland, the Seattle Chamber Music Society, the Rockport Chamber Music Festival, and numerous Morningside Music Bridge recitals in Boston, Poland, and Israel. Mr. From has had premières of his orchestral compositions by the Vancouver and Winnipeg symphony orchestras.