JINHONG LI – CHINA (30)

Jinhong Li has performed in many important concerts all over the world as both a soloist and a collaborative pianist. He made his public debut with an orchestra when he was 14. Since then, he has given recitals and concerto performances throughout Asia, Europe, and North America. The orchestras he has worked with include the Kansas City Chamber Orchestra, Solisti di Perugia, Hilton Head Symphony Orchestra, Shenzhen Symphony Orchestra, the Orchestra Xiamen Theater, the Guangzhou Symphony Orchestra, and Uzbekistan National Symphony.  

Jinhong has received many prizes and awards at home and abroad, including third prize at Hilton Head’s first Young Artists Piano Competition. He has received awards in many other competitions including the China Shenzhen International Piano Concerto Competition (2011), the Sydney International Piano Competition (2012), the KAWAI Asian Youth Piano Competition (2013), the China Music Golden Bell Award Piano Competition (2013), among others. In 2017, he won third prize at the Ile de France International Piano Competition.  

Born in Shenyang, China, Jinhong started to learn his instrument at the age of 5. He studied with the Director of the Piano Department of the Central Conservatory of Music, Danwen Wei. From 2014 to 2018 he studied under Stanislav Ioudenitch with a full scholarship to Park University in Missouri. In 2018, he was admitted to The Juilliard School for the Master of Music degree and studied with Hung-Kuan Chen there. In 2020, he entered the Eastman School of Music for his doctoral degree with Dr. Douglas Humpherys.