Lanyao Hao

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Lanyao Hao, studentka studiów drugiego stopnia, z klasy fortepianu prof. dra hab. Andrzeja Pikula, została laureatką międzynarodowych konkursów:

• Finalistka – Recondite Armonie IV International Piano Competition w Grosseto we Włoszech, w czerwcu 2023,
• II nagroda – Macchioni Prize II w Konkursie o nagrodę im. Oscara Macchioni za najlepsze wykonanie utworu Karola Szymanowskiego, Kraków, 02.06.2023 r.,
• I nagroda – II International Viennese Spring Music Competition 2022 r.,
• I nagroda – Online International BTHVN Wien Competition, w październiku 2022 r.,
• Gold Prize Winner – Grand Master Music Competition, 21.06.2022 r.

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She began learning the piano at the age of three. At the age of 10, she was accepted as a student by Zhang Jin, head of the piano department at BEIJING The Central Conservatory of Music. In the four years of study, she participated in the China Music Competition and won many first prizes. She won first prize in the Richard Clayderman competition and won a Yamaha piano. In the BEIJING Central Conservatory of Music Primary School Examination, she was ranked fourth in China. She has held his entire Debussy concert in Dalian, Shenyang, Anhui and Shanghai. In 2019, she was admitted to the Singapore Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts (NAFA) and studied with Mrs Rena Phua, the head of the piano department, and won first place several times during his three years of study. She also traveled to Hong Kong and Poland with Professor Mrs Rena Phahua to attend concerts and master classes. In 2020, it was approved by both Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts (NAFA) and the Krzysztof Penderecki Academy of Music in Krakow admitted undergraduate degrees. In October 2021, she officially entered the master’s studies at the Krzysztof Penderecki Academy of Music in Krakow to become an official student of prof. Andrzej Pikul. In prof. Andrzej Pikul’s first year of teaching she won first place in two international awards. At the same time, she participated in the school’s master class in the summer of 2022 with Rolf-Dieter Arens (formerly full professor for piano at the Hochschule für Musik Franz Liszt in Weimar). As a Chinese student with the prof. Andrzej Pikul, she studied different musical styles and composers, such as Karol Szymanowski, and also participated in the Macchioni competition at the Krzysztof Penderecki Academy of Music in Krakow in June 2023, where she won second prize for the best performance of Szymanowski piano work. Persistance and learning is her lifelong attitude.

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