Since his gold medal wins at the 13th Van Cliburn International Piano Competition in 2009, 26-year-old Chinese pianist Zhang Haochen has captivated audiences in the United States, Europe, and Asia with a unique combination of deep musical sensitivity, fearless imagination, and spectacular virtuosity.

 

 

He has already appeared with many of the world’s leading festivals and concert series and his performance of Liszt’s Concerto No. 1 at the BBC Proms with YU Long and the China Philharmonic has received rave reviews, "He made the Allegretto dance with Mendelssohnian lightness and Lisztian diablerie, and played the melody of the Quasi Adagio with melting softness." Ivan Hewitt, The Telegraph.

 

 

A popular guest soloist for many orchestras in China, Haochen made his debut in Munich with the Munich Philharmonic and the late maestro Lorin Maazel in April 2013, preceding their sold-out tour. Haochen has also toured in China with the Sydney Symphony and David Robertson, in Tokyo, Beijing, and Shanghai with the NDR Hamburg and Thomas Hengelbrock and following a performance in December 2014 with Valery Gergiev and the Mariinsky Orchestra in Beijing, Mo. Gergiev immediately invited him to his Easter Festival in Moscow, Russia.

 

1. Achille-Claude Debussy
Images Book Ⅱ 
I. Cloches à travers les feuilles
II. Et la lune descend sur le temple qui fut
III. Poissons d’ or
2. Robert Schumann: Humoresque

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1. Pierre Boulez: Piano Sonata No. 1
2. Franz Liszt: Piano Sonata in B Minor, S. 178