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 his generation’s most exciting and creative talents.

Jaeden is celebrated for his remarkable communicative power, artistic maturity, and refined technical command, and 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 Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra and the Orchestre symphonique de Montréal. His playing has been broadcast on CBC Radio’s In Concert, WQXR’s Young Artists Showcase, American Public Media’s Performance Today and medici.tv.

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

Jaeden has won several prestigious awards, including First Prize, the Canon Audience Prize, and the Chamber Music 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.

A thoughtful interpreter of Canadian composers’ works, he received the André-Bachand Prize for the best performance of an imposed Canadian work at the Concours Musical International de Montréal and has recorded Ernst Schneider’s The Romantic Piano Concerto with the Okanagan Symphony Orchestra (Canadian Soundscapes). More 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 at The Juilliard School under Yoheved Kaplinsky and his Master of Music 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.