Indonesian-born pianist Kevin Suherman has appeared nationally and internationally since the age of 10, after being awarded the Indonesian National Records Award (MURI) as the youngest pianist to perform 50 classical, pop and jazz pieces, in a concert for 3 hours non-stop and all music memorised, broadcasted on live national TV.
Kevin has performed as a soloist in over 30 cities and at major concert venues throughout the world, including Wigmore Hall, Steinway Hall and St. James’s Piccadilly in London, the Hamer Hall and the Melbourne Recital Centre, Singapore’s Esplanade, Penang’s Performing Arts Centre and Aula Simfonia Jakarta in Indonesia. Kevin was awarded in honour by the Embassy of the Republic of Indonesia in Singapore, for his debut recital at Singapore’s Esplanade Recital Studio at the age of 10. He also held a charity concert for the 2006 Yogyakarta earthquake victims, which was featured on Indonesian national TV. As an artist of Germany’s Schimmel Pianos Kevin has made 3 solo albums, with his third highlighting Chopin’s 24 Preludes. Kevin started learning the piano at age 6 with Stephen Sulungan in Bandung, and he also studied jazz with Bambang Nugroho.
Kevin has worked with world-class musicians such as Menahem Pressler, Paul Badura-Skoda, Andrea Bonatta, Tamas Ungar, Alessio Bax, and at the Internationale Sommerakademie in Mozarteum, Salzburg with Karl-Heinz Kämmerling, Rolf Plagge and Roland Krüger. Kevin has also worked with eminent conductors such as André de Quadros, Sian Edwards, Stephen Tong and Martin Rutherford – and orchestras including the Jakarta Simfonia Orchestra, Yogyakarta Symphony Orchestra, Chamber Strings of Melbourne and Royal Academy of Music Symphony Orchestra. Kevin performed his first piano concerto with orchestra at the age of 12, and has since performed over 13 piano concertos. His performance of the Rachmaninoff Piano Concerto No. 3 with the Jakarta Simfonia Orchestra under Stephen Tong in 2015 was received with critical acclaim – the first ever performance of this Concerto in Indonesia.
On the competition platform, Kevin has won national first prizes from the Australian Youth Classical Music Competition, Royal South Street Chopin Competition, Vera Bradford Concerto Competition, and the Melbourne Recital Centre Great Romantics Competition. Kevin competed in the 60th Int. Busoni Piano Competition in Italy, and was a semi-finalist in the 14th Int. Ettlingen Youth Piano Competition in Germany. Additionally, Kevin is the winner of Royal Academy of Music’s 2017 Wilfrid Parry Prize, 2018 Delius Prize, the Else Cross Contemporary Piano Prize, and the Isaacs & Pirani Piano Trio Prize.
As an active chamber musician, Kevin frequently collaborates with cellist Ye Jin Choi, as the Orix Duo. The Duo has won several prizes at the Royal Academy of Music, including the Delius Prize. Subsequently, the Orix Duo was invited by the Delius Society to perform at Madingley Hall, Cambridge, where they were praised for their interpretation of the Delius Cello Sonata. Kevin has worked with renowned chamber musicians such as Michael Dussek, Christoph Richter, Adrian Brendel and Trio Owon. Kevin was also invited to perform in the 2019 Bloomsbury Festival in London, and together with the Orix Duo they performed in the New Wave Concert Series, with a programme inspired by the 50th anniversary of the first landing on the moon.
Kevin obtained the Advanced Diploma in Performance degree from the Royal Academy of Music in London, under the Steinway & Sons scholarship. As a student of renowned pianist, Professor Joanna MacGregor CBE, he specialised in Liszt’s Transcriptions of Beethoven Symphonies. Additionally, Kevin obtained his Master of Arts and Professional Diploma degrees from the Royal Academy of Music and was awarded with DipRAM (Diploma of the Royal Academy of Music) for an outstanding final recital. Kevin also holds a Bachelor of Music (Honours) degree from The University of Melbourne Conservatorium of Music where he studied with Professor Max Cooke OAM, and he graduated as the Valedictorian of the Year 2016. Kevin is an alumnus of Melbourne Grammar School, where he was awarded the Sir Brian Hone honorary medal for his service to music. Kevin is a teaching associate at The University of Melbourne, and piano staff at Scotch College. In 2025, he was awarded an Associate of the Royal Academy of Music (ARAM).
Upcoming Events
Rigg Bequest Classic Music 2026 - in Special and Sacred Spaces
Through Forest and Flame: Lieder and Love
Experience a nineteenth-century world of musical fantasy in the bluestone grandeur of Melbourne's 1874 German Lutheran Church, East Melbourne, with tenor Michael Petruccelli, mezzo-soprano Sally-Anne Russell and Team partner Darryl Coote at the piano.
The program includes Schumann’s song cycle Liederkreis Op 24, Wagner’s iconic Wesendonck Lieder, the world premiere of New Zealand composer Andrew Perkins’ Pax Vobiscum, a duet for mezzo-soprano and tenor composed specially for Sally-Anne Russell, as well as by Darryl Coote’s performance of Schumann’s Arabesque for piano Op 18.
Join other audience members and the artists for interval refreshments hosted by the Friends of the Team of Pianists.
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Don't miss this evening of vocal excellence from three of Australia's most experienced Lieder interpreters.
Date and Time
Sunday May 3, 2026 at 6.30pm
German Lutheran Church
(Deutsche Evangelische Dreifaltigkeitskirche)
22 Parliament Place, East Melbourne, VIC, 3002
Major sponsor: Colin & Cicely Rigg Bequest, as managed by Equity Trustees.
Rigg Bequest Classic Music 2026 - in Special and Sacred Spaces
Across Time and Tradition: Music for Clarinet, Bassoon and Piano
Robert Schubert - clarinet, Matthew Angus - bassoon, and Robert Chamberlain - piano, trace a musical journey that spans centuries, styles and cultures, in the warm acoustics of St John's Anglican Church, Camberwell.
Uniting Classical clarity, Romantic lyricism and contemporary re‑imagining, this program ranges from the intimate poetry of Schumann’s Abegg Variations and Glinka’s enthralling Trio Pathétique, to the elegant conversational forms of Lefèvre and Kreutzer, where clarinet and bassoon speak with wit, balance and grace. These European traditions are refracted through the voice of Australian‑Chinese composer Julian Yu, whose reworking of Glinka’s Romance and vivid Uygur Dance bring folk melody and cross‑cultural perspective into the present.
Join other audience members and the artists for interval refreshments hosted by the Friends of the Team of Pianists.
This program celebrates the enduring power of wind instruments to sing, converse and dance across time, tradition and place.
Date and Time
Thursday May 21, 2026 at 7.00pm
St John's Anglican Church
552 Burke Road
Camberwell, VIC, 3124
Major sponsor: Colin & Cicely Rigg Bequest, as managed by Equity Trustees.
Rigg Bequest Classic Music 2026 - in Special and Sacred Spaces
Carnival of Oboe and Piano
Anne Gilby - oboe, Darryl Coote - piano, present works ranging from the elegance of Mozart’s concert aria 'Ah se in ciel, benigne stelle' to the shimmering colours of Ravel’s Sonatine, arranged for these two instruments, plus the smoky intimacy of Piazzolla’s Oblivion and the wit of Malcolm Arnold’s Sonatina for oboe and piano.
After interval, brilliant solo pianist Kevin Suherman performs works by Schumann and Liszt: Liszt's rapturous arrangement of Schumann's 'Widmung' (Dedication) and the kaleidoscopic scenes of Schumann’s Carnaval Op. 9. Don't miss this evening of colour, lyricism, and theatrical flair in the warm acoustics of St John's Anglican Church, Camberwell.
Join other audience members and the artists for interval refreshments hosted by the Friends of the Team of Pianists.
Date and Time
Thursday June 25, 2026 at 7.00pm
St John's Anglican Church
552 Burke Road
Camberwell, VIC, 3124
Major sponsor: Colin & Cicely Rigg Bequest, as managed by Equity Trustees.
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Australian-Irish pianist DARRYL COOTE is a partner of the Team of Pianists, Artists-in-Residence at Glenfern for the National Trust of Australia (Victoria). His professional life encompasses activity as solo pianist, chamber musician, concerto soloist, teacher, adjudicator and administrator.
Read More...ROBERT CHAMBERLAIN is a versatile and accomplished pianist, with interests ranging from period performance to contemporary music and with specialisations including chamber and ensemble music. He studied for Bachelors and Masters degrees in Australia under Max Cooke, in Vienna as a winner of the Apex/Robert Stolz Scholarship, and also at the Banff Centre for the Arts, Canada.
Read More...ROHAN MURRAY completed the Master of Music Performance degree at the Victorian College of the Arts with First Class Honours. He is a member of the Golden Key Honour Society, and was a grand finalist and prize-winner at the 2000 Australian Piano Award.
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