Sten Heinoja

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Sten Heinoja regularly works as a chamber and solo musician in Europe, Asia and the United States, giving about 40 concerts a year.

For the last 5 years he has lived in London, where he works mainly as a freelance pianist in various chamber ensembles. The duo with violinist Roberto Ruis has been a great success, culminating in a concert at Wigmore Hall this season. In February 2020, the duo won the prestigious Swiss Ambassador Award, which includes a CD recording and a concert tour in England and Switzerland.

His most successful ensemble partners include Singapore violinist Yume Fujitse, with whom he made his debut last year in Japan and England’s major halls. Besides that Heinoja is a part of a piano trio Hämarik with the violinist Triin Ruubel-Lilleberg and cellist Theodor Sink. He has also been successful in several competitions, including the winner of the VIII Competition of Estonian Pianists (2014, he was also awarded 5 special prizes), the winner of the Classic Stars (2016) and received the 1st Prize in the Kendall Taylor Beethoven Competition (2018, London).

Heinoja started his piano studies at Tallinn Music High School (teachers Maie Klesment and Marju Roots). At the same time, he was also supervised by Prof. Ivari Ilja of the Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre, in whose class he obtained a Bachelor´s degree (2015, cum laude). He continued his studies at the Royal College of Music in London with a Master´s degree (Professors Vanessa Latarche and Sofya Gulyak, Artist Diploma, 2018), for which he was awarded a full scholarship.

One of his most important stage partners from Estonia is the cellist Marcel Johannes Kits, with whom tours to Romania, the Netherlands, France and Germany are expected in the 2020/21 season.