Nation's piano teacher
2 years, 9 months ago

Nation's piano teacher

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Zhou passes on tips to concert pianist Sheng Yuan in 1991. At the age of 17, he participated in the ARD International Music Competition held in Munich, Germany, as the youngest performer that year, and won third place in the competition. "During the semifinal, I insisted on playing Schubert's Piano Sonata D 95, though Zhou suggested that I play Schumann's Carnival. He received his PhD degree from the Hochschule fur Musik und Theater Hannover, with a perfect score in academic performance, the first in the university's history. Now, Wang is a faculty member, teaching the piano at Tianjin Juilliard School, the first overseas campus of the New York-based Juilliard School.

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Renowned Israeli pianist Arie Vardi, 86, during a masterclass at the inaugural Tianjin Juilliard Piano Festival. Yoheved Kaplinsky, the chair of the piano department at the Juilliard School in New York, gives a masterclass at Tianjin Juilliard during the school's inaugural piano festival. Along with the chair of the piano department at the Juilliard School in New York, Yoheved Kaplinsky, …

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Pianists Chen Sa and Dan Zhaoyi celebrate Zhou's 70th birthday in 1998. As a student of the middle school affiliated to the Central Conservatory of Music, Sheng started to learn to play the piano with Zhou from 1987-91.From 1991-97, Sheng studied at the Manhattan School of Music in New York City as a scholarship student of Solomon Mikowsky, where he …

Nation's piano teacher
2 years, 9 months ago

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China Daily  

Pianists Chen Sa and Dan Zhaoyi celebrate Zhou's 70th birthday in 1998. As a student of the middle school affiliated to the Central Conservatory of Music, Sheng started to learn to play the piano with Zhou from 1987-91.From 1991-97, Sheng studied at the Manhattan School of Music in New York City as a scholarship student of Solomon Mikowsky, where he …

Nation's piano teacher
2 years, 9 months ago

Nation's piano teacher

China Daily  

Zhou passes on tips to concert pianist Sheng Yuan in 1991. At the age of 17, he participated in the ARD International Music Competition held in Munich, Germany, as the youngest performer that year, and won third place in the competition. "During the semifinal, I insisted on playing Schubert's Piano Sonata D 95, though Zhou suggested that I play Schumann's …

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