Year of birth: 1998
Place of birth: Nanjing
Educated in: Shanghai
Place of residence: Parkville
(Plays in New York)

Finalist of the 65th Ferruccio Busoni
International Piano Competition

November 2024 Preselections

Watch Jiarui Cheng performance.

Program

D. Scarlatti - Sonata in b minor K. 87 F. Chopin - Étude op. 10, no. 4 S. Rachmaninov - Études-Tableaux op. 39, no. 9 C. Saint-Saëns / F. Liszt / V. Horowitz - Danse Macabre, op. 40  


Biography

Jiarui Cheng has performed as concert soloist and recitalist in China, United States and Europe. In 2017, he performed Beethoven No.4 with the Grossetto Symphony Orchestra in Italy. Jiarui Cheng has been a prizewinner in multiple competitions including the Scriabin International Piano Competition. In 2019 he performed Rachmaninoff 3rd Piano Concerto to great acclaim with The CIM Orchestra. He was a semi-finalists of Cleveland International piano competition and Santander International piano competition. In 2023 he performed Grieg piano concerto with Aspen orchestra as winner of the Aspen concerto competition. Later, he also performed Beethoven piano concerto No.4 with Tongyeong Music Festival Orchestra as prizewinner of ISANGYUN International Piano Competition.

 

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