JaedenIzik-Dzurko

Canadian pianist Jaeden Izik-Dzurko is a Borletti-Buitoni Trust Fellow and the 2024 winner of the Gold Medal at the Leeds International Piano Competition. He also became the first Canadian instrumentalist to be awarded the Grand Prize Laureate at the Concours musical international de Montréal.

Highlights of Jaeden's 2026/27 season include concerto debuts with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Stavanger and Gunma Symphony Orchestras. He tours with the Orchestre symphonique de Montréal to the Hong Kong Arts Festival, where he also gives a recital, and returns to the Vancouver and Edmonton Symphony Orchestras. Recital debuts include appearances at Muza Kawasaki, Serate Musicali in Milan, Flagey and BASF Ludwigshafen.

Jaeden has recently made acclaimed recital debuts at Wigmore Hall, Klavier Festival Ruhr, Davies Symphony Hall in San Francisco, the Gewandhaus Leipzig (Mendelssohn Hall), the Elbphilharmonie Hamburg, Carnegie Hall (Weill Recital Hall), Salle Cortot, Auditorio Nacional de Música in Madrid, Krannert Center for the Performing Arts in Illinois, Vancouver Recital Society, Münchner Künstlerhaus and Sociedad Filarmónica de Bilbao.

As a concerto soloist, he has appeared with the Orchestre symphonique de Montréal, National Symphony Orchestra of Ireland, Edmonton Symphony Orchestra, National Arts Centre Orchestra (Ottawa), Bilbao Orkestra Sinfonikoa, Orquesta Sinfónica de Madrid, Oviedo Filarmonía, Oxford Philharmonic and RTVE Symphony Orchestra. Recent conductor collaborations include Gemma New, Alexander Shelley, Domingo Hindoyan, John Storgårds and Joseph Swensen.

Other awards include first prizes at the Hilton Head, Maria Canals, and Paloma O'Shea Santander International Piano Competitions, where he also won the Canon Audience Prize and Chamber Music Award.

Born in British Columbia with Hungarian-Ukrainian heritage, Jaeden attended The Juilliard School before studying with Jacob Leuschner at the Hochschule für Musik Detmold and Benedetto Lupo at the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia.