Dr Bowen Li

PIANIST / PIANO TEACHER

Bowen is an award winning pianist from Australia. He has twice been nominated for the Australian National Piano Awards and has won the Leona and Bruce Sterling Prize at the 2022 Awards. He has also won the Sydney Eisteddfod Piano Concerto Competition and been a finalist in competitions such as the 2MBS FM Young Virtuosi Award and the Prix d’Orford.

Bowen obtained a Doctorate of Musical Arts from The University of Toronto, his Master of Music from the University of Montreal and his Bachelor of Music and Performance Diploma from the Glenn Gould School of the Royal Conservatory of Music. He also holds an Artist Diploma from the Montreal Conservatory. Bowen has been a student of famed Canadian pianists André Laplante and Jamie Parker. He also studied with many of the top pedagogues in the world such as Leon Fleisher, Robert McDonald, and Dang Thai Son.

Bowen has been teaching piano for over ten years and has taught students as young as 3 and as advanced as undergraduate university level students. Bowen is also an RCM Certified Teacher and his students have also been award top prizes at competitions such as the Kiwanis Music Festival, North York Music Festival, and Richmond Hill Music Festival.

Bowen has been invited to teach master classes for intermediate and advanced students at the University of Toronto. He currently works there as a piano instructor for the Music Minor program.

+1 (416) 877-4249

bowen.li@rcmusic.ca