About your piano coach

Leyu Tian, a Chinese pianist, who performs as a soloist, participant in chamber music, and an accompanist. in an array of modalities. This is a testament of his flexibility and open mindedness and open heartedness to varying modalities and different kinds of music. His passion for piano performance creates this limitless attitude where he refuses to limit himself to one way of playing the piano. Leyu Tian has performed Beethoven piano concerto No.3 in C minor with the Macao Symphony Orchestra at the Macao Cultural Centre’s Grand Auditorium and Rachmaninoff piano concerto No.3 in D minor with the Shanghai Philharmoniker at the He Luting Hall. His repertoire encompasses not only great classics, but also innovative new works such as Dance Fury composed by Ping Gao, Instand d’un Opéea de Pékin composed by Qigang Chen, and The Ending of Cloud composed by Yuxuan Dong. As a chamber musician and an accompanist, he played piano trios and quartets in master classes and concerts, and accompanied string, woodwind, and singer works including Handel, Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, Mendelssohn, Dvořák, Saint Saëns, Brahms, Schubert, and Schoenberg He was the recipient of several awards for his performances. In 2017, he won the Macau Grand Finals of the first PETROF International Piano Competition, winning four categories of championships respectively. In 2015, he won the special prize in the professional group final of the 8th Shanghai Youth International Piano Competition and the first prize in the professional group final of the Northwest Division of the 7th Steinway Piano Competition Currently, Leyu Tian is a first year graduate student at the Peabody Institute of the Johns Hopkins University, where he studies with Professor Alexander Shtarkman. He earned a Bachelor of Music Degree in piano performance from Shanghai Conservatory of Music with professor Yingdi Sun, where he was the recipient of the Shanghai People’s Scholarship, Yamaha scholarship and Ende Niu Scholarship. He studied at the Music Middle School Affiliated with Shanghai Conservatory of Music with Professor William Chen. His performance has received guidance from many masters including Ralf Gothóni, William Nabore, Jean-claude Vanden Eynden, Webb Wiggins,Hong-Kuan Chen, Chen Pi-hsien and Ernest So.