Xiaohan Wang

A Steinway Artist and honorary professor, Xiaohan Wang is Chair of Pre-College Piano Studies and professor of chamber music in post-graduate studies at the Tianjin Juilliard School. He also holds the title of Distinguished Professor of piano at the China Conservatory of Music. He has given master classes at The Juilliard School, New England Conservatory, Hannover Hochschule für Musik und Theater and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. His students have won more than 50 prizes at international competitions.

Wang is a prizewinner of the Van Cliburn International Piano Competition (Texas), the ARD International Music Competition (Munich), and the Beethoven International Piano Competition (Bonn). He has performed at Ravinia, Beethoven and Rubinstein Festivals. As a chamber musician, Wang has collaborated with violinists Hilary Hahn and Ning Feng, cellists Misha Maisky and Qin Liwei, the Jerusalem Quartet, the Takács Quartet, the Tokyo Quartet, and the Juilliard Quartet.

In addition, Wang is also a talented composer and conductor. His composition “The Inspiration of Painting” was chosen as the compulsory piece for the 2007 Beethoven International Piano Competition.

Xiaohan Wang is Artistic Director of the Arthur Rubinstein International Junior Piano Competition and the Singapore International Piano Competition. He regularly serves on the jury in international competitions, namely the Sydney Competition, the Isangyun Competition, and the Tchaikovsky Competition for Young Musicians.

Jury Members

Marcello Abbado

Guido Agosti

Martha Argerich

Sulamita Aronovsky

Zvi Avni

Sergei Babayan

Arthur Balsman

Joseph Banowetz

Hui-Qiao Bao

Josef Bardanashvili

Enrique Barenboim

Daniel Barenboim

Dimitri Bashkirov

Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli

Boris Berman

Lazar Berman

Michel Beroff

Andrea Bonatta

Yefim Bronfman

Yefim Bronfman

Yefim Bronfman

Yefim Bronfman

Michael Bugoslavsky

Hung-Kuan Chen

Pierre Colombo

Peter Cossé

Halina Czerny-Stefanska

Michel Dalberto

Jose de Sequeira Costa

Noel do Carmo Flores

Peter Donohoe

François-René Duchâble

Thomas Duis

Carsten Durer

Akiko Ebi

Jan Ekier

Dean Elder

Taiseer Elias

Christopher Elton

Martin Engstroem

Jacques Fevrier

Janina Fialkowska

Marian Filar

Rudolf Firkusny

Leon Fleischer

Ian Fountain

Claude Frank

Peter Frankl

Orazio Frugoni

Henri Gagnebin

Valentin Gheorghiu

Pavel Gililov

Bernd Goetzke

Hans Graf

Gary Graffman

Zhou Guangren

Andre Hajdu

Ian Hobson

Akiko Iguchi

Eugen Indjic

Eugene Istomin

Andrzej Jasinski

Karl Heinz Kaemmerling

Joachim Kaiser

Yoheved Kaplinsky

Mindru Katz

Daejin Kim

Irving Kolodin

Alexander Korsantia

Vladimir Krajnev

Emanuel Krasovsky

Tomer Lev

Robert Levin

John Lill

Eugene List

Jerome Lowenthal

Nikita Magaloff

André-François Marescotti

Victor Merzhanov

Ella Milch-Sheriff

Li Ming-Qiang

Gyorgy Nador

Hiroko Nakamura

Émile Naoumoff

Lev Naumov

Marlos Nobre

John O’Conor

Ronan O’Hora

Noriko Ogawa

Gerhard Oppitz

Cecile Ousset

Vyacheslav Ovchinnikov

Piotr Paleczny

Sergio Perticaroli

Pierre Petit

Nikolai Petrov

Ewa Poblocka

Robert Ponsonby

Katarzyna Popowa-Zydron

Awadagin Pratt

Menahem PRESSLER

Matti Raekallio

Yoni Rechter

Mendi Rodan

Arthur Rubinstein

Pnina Salzman

György Sándor

Hans Ulrich Schmid

Harold Schonberg

Uri Segal

Craig Sheppard

Soo-Jung Shin

Michal Smoira-Cohn

Dang Thai Son

Takahiro Sonoda

Joaquin Soriano

Hugo Steurer

Gordon Stewart

Josef Tal

Alexander Tamir

Alexander Tansman

Kiri Janette Te Kanawa

Maria Tipo

Arie VARDI, Chair

Tamás Vásáry

Ilona Vincze-Kraus

Eliso Virsaladze

Lev Vlasenko

Mikhail Voskressensky

Fanny Waterman

Dieter Weber

Alexis Weissenberg

Ramzi Yassa

Dina Yoffe

Asaf Zohar

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