Year of birth: 1998
Place of birth: Gyeonggi-do
Educated in: Salzburg
Place of residence: Salzburg
(Plays in Vienna)
Watch Gichang Lee performance.
F. Liszt - Réminiscences de Norma, S. 394 F. Chopin - Étude op. 10, no. 8 C. Debussy - Étude No. 5, "Pour les Octaves", L. 136
Gichang Lee graduated from the Yewon School and Seoul Arts Highschool in South Korea. He studied with Prof. Daejin Kim at the Korea National Institute for the Gifted in Arts and graduated Bachelor’s degree from Korea National University of Arts with excellent grades with Prof. Minsoo Sohn. He is continuing his Master studies with Prof. Pietro De Maria at Universität Mozarteum Salzburg. Gichang Lee has been awarded prizes in numerous national and international competitions around the world. He was the First Prize winner of “Korea Chopin Competition”, “Samick Seiler Piano Concours”, “Korean Liszt Competiton”, “The Music Association of Korea Competition”, ”Asia Pacific International Fryderyk Chopin Piano Competition” and he won 2nd prize from “Concorso Pianistico Internazionale Massarosa”.
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