Warm Prompt:
Children under the age of six or 1.2 meters will not be admitted. Each audience should have a ticket (ID card is also needed) regardless of the age.

 

 

Piano: Xiaofu Ju
Pianist Xiaofu Ju was awarded first prize in the Second Hong Kong International Piano
Competition, the Eighth Asian Piano Finals, the first Shanghai Himalaya National Youth Piano Competition, and the First Youth Piano Competition of Shanghai Conservatory of Music. He was chosen to be the first ambassador of Pearl River Piano.
 
He was a finalist of The Pearl River Piano Competition in China and recipient of the
Juilliard Kenneth M. and Josephine J. Bissell Scholarship, the Martin Canin Scholarship and the Adele Marcus Piano Scholarship. Ju was a featured soloist on the opening ceremony of the second Youth Olympic Games and the Salzburg Profound Arts Festival. The world-renowned Pianist Jörg Demus recognized Ju as a “Pianist with promising talents and a natural depth in music.”
 
Ju has performed in Wiener Musikverein, Salzburg Congress, China National Center for the Performing Arts, the Great Hall of People in Beijing, Shanghai Concert Hall, Shanghai Oriental Art Center, Shanghai Symphony Hall, in addition to venues in New York, Los Angeles, Norway, Croatia, Guangzhou, Nanjing, Japan, Singapore, Kuala Lumpur, Hong Kong, etc.
 
Since his orchestral debut at age 14 with Shanghai Philharmonic, where he performed
Beethoven Piano Concerto No.3, he has successfully played with orchestras including
Wiener Hofburg Orchester, China Central Opera House, Shanghai Philharmonic, Shanghai Opera House, Japan Gunma Youth Symphony, Russian Ке́меров National
Symphony, Jiangsu Symphony, and the Hong Kong Youth Philharmonic.
 
Ju has had the honor to study and play for many influential pianists, including Jörg
Demus, Gary Graffman, Tamas Vasary, Vladimir Viardo, Jerome Lowenthal, Arie Vardi,
Shikun Liu, Boris Berman, Dina Yoffe, Robert Levin, Pavlina Dokovska, Marc-Andre Hamelin, Dimitri Alexeev, Vladimir Ovchinnikov and Leif-Ove Andsnes.
 
Ju started learning piano at the age of 4. He is a graduate from Music Middle School
Affiliated to Shanghai Conservatory of Music, where he studied with Ting Zhou. Ju received his Bachelor’s Degree at The Juilliard School in 2022 and then continues his postgraduate studies under the tutelage of Yoheved Kaplinsky.
 
In 2019, he published a collection of his poetry On the Path Seeking for the Ruins of Spring.
 

Program
Janacek: Piano Sonata 1.X.1905
Bach: Prelude and Fugue in e minor, BWV855
Shostakovich: Prelude and Fugue in e minor, Op.87
Ravel: Le Tombeau de Couperin
Liszt: Ballade in b minor, S.171
Liszt: Sonata in b minor, S.178
 
 (Please check program updates at the concert.)