Young Virtuoso Awards

Gil Sullivan – biography

One of Australia’s resident full‐time concert pianists, Gil Sullivan tours extensively around Australia and overseas, performing each year throughout Asia, Europe, the U.K., and the United States.

He has given recitals in the Amsterdam Concertgebouw, the Berlin and Vienna Konzerthauses, the Bruges Concertgebouw (filmed by Belgium TV), Chicago’s Center for International Performance and Exhibition, Vietnam’s National Opera House, the Claremont Opera House – New Hampshire (USA), Darmstadt’s
Orangerie (Germany), the National Concert Halls of Thailand, Taiwan, Hong Kong and Korea, and has twice performed in New York’s Carnegie Hall, both times to screaming standing ovations, where the New York Concert Review said ‐ “It was an exciting close to the concert by a pianist possessed of supreme intelligence and phenomenal technical prowess in equal measure”.

For CD, he has recorded concertos by Tchaikovsky, Saint‐Saëns and Schumann with the West Australian Symphony Orchestra, and more recently, has signed a major contract to record the complete Mozart Piano Sonatas with the recording company in Houston Texas. 

Mr. Sullivan is also a distinguished and enthusiastic teacher, with teaching positions and residencies that include the Seoul Art School–South Korea; Chiao Tung University–Taiwan; Hanoi Conservatory–Vietnam; The Hong Kong Institute of Education; He has also lectured and given masterclasses at London’s Royal Academy and Royal College of Music, the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Dance, London’s Guildhall School of Music and Drama, South Carolina University, Chico University–Sacramento, and in 2003 gave his lecture‐recital on Mozart’s piano works at Oxford University. He is also a regular adjudicator of the Julian Cochran International Piano competition.