Yang Zhang
Achievements
A Chinese pianist and chamber musician from Sichuan Province. He is currently pursuing a Doctor of Musical Arts degree at the Chopin University of Music in Warsaw, while concurrently completing a postgraduate diploma at the Karol Szymanowski Academy of Music under pianists Agnieszka Przemyk-Bryła, Janusz Olejniczak, and Szczepan Kończal. His doctoral supervisor is Prof.Bartłomiej Kominek.
Zhang obtained his Bachelor's and Master's degrees at the Lviv National Music Academy in Ukraine (2016-2022) under Honored Artist of Ukraine Prof. Мирослав Драган Тарасович. He graduated summa cum laude in Piano Performance and Chamber Music, receiving an honors diploma in 2022.
Zhang has been awarded prizes in over ten international piano competitions, including Second Prize at the Lviv Piano Competition (2018), the Concerto Prize at the Poland Without Borders International Piano Forum (2023), First Prize at the Clara Schumann International Competition (2024), Third Prize at the Vienna Classic Music Competition (2025), and First Prize at the Fanny Mendelssohn International Competition (2025). In 2024, he completed a recording of Schumann’s Fantasiestücke Op. 12 and collaborated with pianist YinJia Mao on a recording of Rachmaninoff’s Suite No. 2 for Two Pianos at the Fryderyk Chopin University of Music Concert Hall in Warsaw. He is an artist of the Chopin festival “Chopin en Vacances.
He has performed at prominent venues across China, Italy, Finland, Estonia, Poland, and Ukraine, including Helsinki Senate Square Church, T allinn History Museum, Lviv National Philharmonic Grand Concert Hall, Lviv Organ Hall, Krzysztof Penderecki European Centre for Music, Chopin Salon in Warsaw , Calisia One, Mielec Local Government Cultural Center (collaborating with the Warsaw National Philharmonic Chamber Orchestra), and Ludomir Różycki Concert Hall in Kielce (collaborating with the Lviv Chamber Orchestra).
He has also participated in numerous music festivals, including International Piano Forum "Bieszczady Without Borders", Chopin-Górecki Music Festival, Bisma Piano Festival, Katowice International Piano Masterclasses, Classical Embrace, and Baltic Music Festival.
He has received guidance from internationally renowned musicians, including Dmitri Alexeev , Andrzej Jasiński, Akiko Ebi, Andrzej T atarski, Grigory Gruzman, Michael Bulychev-Okser , Carlo Palese, Elena Margolina-Hait, Wojciech Kocyan, and Aleksandra Zvirblyte.
Concert program
- Preludes, Op. 28:
- No. 1 in C major
- No. 2 in a minor
- No. 3 in G major
- No. 4 in e minor
- No. 5 in D major
- No. 6 in b minor
- No. 7 in A major
- No. 8 in f-sharp minor
- No. 9 in E major
- No. 10 in c-sharp minor
- No. 11 in B major
- No. 12 in g-sharp minor
- No. 13 in F-sharp major
- No. 14 in e-flat minor
- No. 15 in D-flat major
- No. 16 in b-flat minor
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- No. 17 in A-flat major
- No. 18 in f minor
- No. 19 in E-flat major
- No. 20 in c minor
- No. 21 in B-flat major
- No. 22 in g minor
- No. 23 in F major
- No. 24 in d minor
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Please note that the concert program is subject to change
