Zhexiang Li

ZHEXIANG LI, piano
Zhexiang Li, Young Ambassador of Lang Lang International Music Foundation & Lang Lang Arts Foundation. As the BOB “Best of Best”, Top-notch innovative talent of Central Conservatory of Music and XingHai Artist, he has won wide praise for his outstanding musical talent and exquisite skills. He studied under Professor Xinning Zhang and Professor Danwen Wei. In 2019, he was admitted to the Central Conservatory of Music Middle School with the first place, showing its extraordinary musical potential.

Li Zhexiang’s artistic footprint has spread all over the world. At the age of 11, he entered the international stage. He has held solo concerts in famous concert halls and grand theaters in Beijing, Los Angeles, London, Nagoya, Hong Kong and other places, and appeared on CCTV, winning the applause of the audience with his profound musical accomplishment and influential interpretation. Now only 18 years old, he has performed a series of memorable concerts with many well-known orchestras at China and abroad, such as the China Philharmonic Orchestra, Shenzhen Symphony Orchestra, Central Conservatory of Music Symphony Orchestra, Pacific Symphony Orchestra, Orquestra Simfônica do Porto Casa da Música, Camerata Orchestra and Salzburg Soloists Chamber Orchestra.

In the competitive arena, he also performed well for the first time in 2017 at the Zhuhai Mozart International Competition for Young Musicians, winning the second prize. In the final, he performed Mozart piano Concerto and Salzburg Soloist Chamber Orchestra while conducting. He is known as the rising star of Chinese piano industry. In 2019, he won the first prize and The Best Performance of Polonaise Award in the Junior Group of the 2nd Beijing International Fryderyk Chopin Piano Competition for Young Pianists. In 2023, he won the first prize, The Best Chinese Work Piano Concerto Award and Best Cooperation Award of the 5th China Shenzhen International Piano Concerto Competition. In June 2024, he won the first prize, concert tour award, KNS Classical Agency Prize and record a solo CD, Victor Macedo Pinto Prize, Câmara Municipal do Porto Prize of the 26th Santa Cecilia International Piano Competition. In October 2024, he won the second prize and audience prize of the 2024 Xiamen International Piano Competition. To date, he has also won numerous awards in international young piano competitions such as Gina Bachauer, Cleveland, Manchester and Horowitz… proving his strength and charm on the international music scene.

“A splendid display of deep musicianship and precise technical command.
Zhexiang Li is proven to be a highly accomplished young artist”. — Professor Danwen Wei, Chairman of the Piano Department of the Central Conservatory of Music, Chairman of The Jury of Xiamen International Piano Competition (XIPC)

“Very clear and personal. Very impressive!” – Álvaro Teixeira Lopes, Professor in the Department of Communication and Art at Aveiro University and Artistic Director of Santa Cecilia International Competition (CISC), and Director
of Curso de Música Silva Monteiro (CMSM).