Ernest So


Ernest Hin-Leung So is a Hong Kong-born pianist who specialises in the works of lesser-known classical composers such as Sergei Bortkiewicz, Leopold Godowsky and Nikolai Medtner, among many others. 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 and the Beethoven Trophy. He later attended The Juilliard School in New York, where he studied under Jacob Lateiner, among other teachers including Solomon Mikowsky, Constance Keene, and Jonathan Feldman. So is an Honorary Professor of Music at Guangxi University and has also been a teacher of Music History and a piano instructor at the Music and Drama Institute in Hong Kong. He is currently the Chief Technical Consultant of Asia Piano Japan Co. Ltd., where he is responsible for overseeing the quality control and technical aspects of reconditioning Yamaha pianos.
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.
He currently lives in London.