Mischa Cheung

Mischa Cheung studied with Konstantin Scherbakov at the Zurich University of the Arts and has since had a busy career, bringing him to many concert stages and festivals worldwide. He is a member of the Gershwin Piano Quartet, a highly praised ensemble that performs spectacular arrangements on four pianos and released its album Transatlantiques with Sony Classical in 2018. Cheung plays solo and chamber music recitals and regularly performs as a soloist at the Symphonic Game Music Concerts directed by Merregnon Studios. This concert series has taken him on tour to Japan with the London Symphony Orchestra, and he has also appeared with the Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra, the Beethoven Orchestra Bonn, the Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra, and the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra. In 2023, Cheung played the piano solo on Final Symphony II: Music from Final Fantasy V, VIII, IX & XIII, a recording with the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra. He has also worked with the renowned choreographer Alexandra Bachzetsis, composing and playing the music of transdisciplinary works commissioned by the Museum of Modern Art in New York and the Art Institute of Chicago. In 2019, Cheung released a recording of Friedrich Gulda's piano concerto on Solo Musica to much critical acclaim. He was a member of the ECHO-award-winning ensemble Spark from 2011 until 2015, taking part in extensive concert tours and numerous radio, TV and CD productions, including recordings for Deutsche Grammophon and Berlin Classics. Mischa Cheung teaches at the Zurich University of the Arts. After being an assistant for Konstantin Scherbakov's masterclasses for many years, he was recently appointed a piano and improvisation lecturer.