Year of birth: 2000
Place of birth: Beijing
Educated in: New York
Place of residence: Hannover
(Plays in Hamburg)

Finalist of the 65th Ferruccio Busoni
International Piano Competition

November 2024 Preselections

Watch Zeyu Shen performance.

Program

F. Liszt - Étude d'exécution Transcendante, S. 139: no. 10 C. Debussy - Étude No. 5, "Pour les Octaves", L. 136 A. Skrjabin - Deux Preludes, op. 67 A. Skrjabin - Sonata n. 9 op. 68, "Black Mass"  


Biography

Zeyu Shen, was born in Beijing, and has been educated and is currently based in New York. Zeyu studied at the Juilliard School Pre-college Division in 2015, and completed his Bachelor of Music at Juilliard in 2019, and his Master of Music at Juilliard in 2023 under the mentorship of Hung-kuan Chen and Jerome Lowenthal. In November 2016, Zeyu won the concerto competition held by Juilliard School, and performed in the prize winner concerto Rachmaninoff’s Piano Concerto No.1 with Maestro Adam Glaser and the Juilliard Orchestra in the Alice Tully Hall. He has won the first prize at the 41st Delia Steinberg International Piano Competition in Madrid, and made promising appearances in Busoni and Dublin International Piano Competition. Zeyu has been invited by the Leningrad Symphony Orchestra and the Tsingtao Symphony Orchestra.

 

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