Only in his young age, Haiou Zhang has received wide recognition by critics and
audiences in Europe, North and South America and the Far East.
In 2016 and 2017, Haiou Zhang performed for more than 50000 his music fans with
30 recitals throughout major concert halls in China.
His three CD albums under the nobel label Hänssler Classic is now on the market worldwide. Lufthansa have selected it in the official board music programs. Reviews have been raves throughout Europe, the United States, Canada, and South America.
Highlights in recent seasons engagements include NDR Radio Philharmonic under Andrew Manze, Ontario Philharmonic Orchestra under Marco Parisotto, Heidelberger Sinfoniker under Thomas Fey and Frieder Bernius, Hamburg Symphony Orchestra under Xin Tan, Philharmonie Festiva under Gerd Schaller, Russian Chamber Philharmonic Orchestra St. Petersburg under Juri Gilbo, Orchestra Filharmonica della Calabria under Filippo Arlia, and successful debuts at Concergebouw Amsterdam, the NCPA Beijing, Beijing Concert Hall and Sala São Paulo
Haiou Zhang conquered thousands of his concert goers throughout the 2010 Canadian Tour with the Slovak State Symphony Orchestra under Kerry Stratton, with Beethoven’s Emperor piano concerto. He subsequently recorded for the label ACR Beethoven’s ”Emperor” piano concerto at the Glenn Gould Studio of CBC in Toronto.
Engagements as a soloist have included with the Belgrade Philharmonic Orchestra, Ukraine State Symphony Philharmonic Orchestra, Beijing Symphony Orchestra, Czech Philharmonic Orchestra, Toronto Philharmonic Orchestra, Bochum Symphony Orchestra, Mannheim Mozart Orchestra, Brandenburg Symphony Orchestra, Polish Philharmonic Chamber Orchestra Sopot, Württembergisches Kammerorchester Heilbronn.
Further débuts in the most prestiges venues in Germany: Konzerthaus Berlin, Philharmonie Berlin, Laeiszhalle Hamburg, Gasteig in Munich, Tonhalle Düsseldorf, Beethovenhaus Bonn, Schleswig-Holstein Musik Festival, Kissinger Sommer, Festspiele Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Würzburg Bach Festival, Augsburg Mozart Festival, Festival International de Musique de Besançon in France, Festival de Música de Sant Pere de Rodes in Spain and International Music Festival Trecastagni in Italy.
Haiou Zhang is heard regularly in concerts and interviews for various radio stations and television, such as CCTV China, SF1 Switzerland, NPR, BBC3, CBC, Classical FM96.3, Ontario TV Canada, Radio 4 Netherland, ORF 1 Austria, Radio New Zealand, France télévision 3, BR-Klassik, NDR Kultur, WDR3, SWR2, Deutschlandradio Kultur and the Deutsche Welle TV.
His great success at the Fifth International Vladimir Horowitz Piano Competition in Kiev followed a CD production at the NDR. In 2005 he won the prestiges Gundlach Music Award in Hanover and has been Fellow of Theodor Lessing Foundation, the Yehudi Menuhin Foundation, the Ottilie-Selbach-Redslob Foundation and the Vera-Ritter Foundation. In 2007 he was awarded the Audience Prize at the Bad Kissingen Piano Olympics. He also won the 1st Prize at the China National Piano Duo Competition.
As a keen chamber musician, his collaborators include such as Quatuor Hermès, vision string quartet, Meccore String Quartet, Faust Quartett, Quartetto di Perugia, Feng Ning, Solenne Paidassi, Andrej Bielow, Christoph Seybold and Leonid Gorokhov.
Beside his concert career, he is also the founder and music director of International Music Festival Buxtehude/Altes Land/Harburg in Northern Germany. The festival has established as one of he most successful classical music institution in the Hamburg metropolitan area.
Haiou Zhang gives masterclasses in Canada, USA, Italy, Germany and diverse universities in China.
Haiou Zhang received his very first piano lesson at the age of almost nine years old. Two years later he stands out as the one of the only 4 (150 in total) candidates get accepted into the Central Conservatory of Music in Beijing and graduated in 2002 with special honors. 2011, he graduated with the best note in the soloist-class at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater Hannover with Prof. Bernd Goetzke, the last pupil of the legendary pianist Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli
Haiou Zhang official homepage:
www.haiou-zhang.com
