Year of birth: 2008
Place of birth: Guangzhou
Educated in: Guangzhou
Place of residence: Guangzhou
(Plays in Shanghai)

Finalist of the 65th Ferruccio Busoni
International Piano Competition

November 2024 Preselections

Watch Zhonghua Wei performance.

Program

F. Liszt - Études d'exécution transcendante, S. 139: n. 5 "Feux Follets" A. Skrjabin - Étude Op. 8, No. 3 N. K. Medtner - Sonata Tragica, Op. 39 No. 5  


Biography

Zhonghua Wei began his piano studies at the age of five with Taiwanese-American pianist Jay Sun, the piano department Chair at Xinghai Conservatory Middle School. Youthful competition successes include first prize at the Hilton Head International Piano Competition for Young Artists also garnering the Peter Takács Prize for Best Classical Sonata, received third prize at the Cleveland International Piano Competition for Young Artists with a special prize for the best performance of Bach, and was accepted for the second year in a row to the prestigious Morningside Music Bridge Festival, an elite full scholarship chamber music program for the top young musicians of the world.

 

Due to health reasons the candidates Shotaro Nishimura and Zixi Chen could not participate in the GPP 2022. They received the possibility to participate in this edition.

 

Candidates who withdrew from the competition:

Bily Robert
Deng Yubo
Durliat Gabriel
Guo Yungyung
Han Wenfang
Lee Shinyoung
Martinelli Riccardo
Park Chaeyoung
Thomazinho Lucas
Wang Jiapeng