2020 New Zealand International Young Artists Festival

At the age of fourteen Claire Chiu arrived in Beijing from her native place Hong Kong to study piano at famed Central Conservatory’s Attached Middle School. This was the beginning of an adventure that has now taken her to three continents and led to her appointment as Associate... Read More →

Bo Yang is currently a PhD candidate at the New Zealand School of Music, with a focus in musicology and music technology, where he intends to explore the instruments of taonga puoro, Māori instruments. And now he is also the chairman of the Chinese Students & Scholars Association... Read More →

Kevin Zhang, born in 2012, started to learn piano at age 3 with her mother, who is the Professor of Piano at the Xinghai Conservatory of Music in Guangzhou China. At age 4, Kevin became to learn violin and is now studying with Prof.Guan Wenhui from the Xinghai Conservatory of Music... Read More →

Xi Wang (Silvia) is currently studying with Claire Chiu at Xin Hai Conservatory of Music in Guangzhou city, China. In recent years, she won the second prize in 6th Internationaler Deutscher Irmler-Klavierwettbewerb and won the third prize in Asia-Pacific Instrumental Music Open Championship... Read More →

Yongjun Li started to learn piano at age 4 with Prof. Claire Chiu from the Xinghai Conservatory of Music. Because of his love and latent in music, he has already participated in many performances and competitions, and has achieved good results, e.g. First Prize of Piano Solo P117-Self-selected... Read More →

Zhengzhang Chen is fascinated by classic music from a young age. From the age of 6, he began to study piano with Professor Claire Chin from the piano department of the Xinghai Conservatory of Music. Under Prof.Chiu’s inspiration, Zhengzhang Chen becomes very interested in piano... Read More →