Hannah Yinghan Wang
Prizewinner, 2020 Philadelphia International Piano Competition
Hannah Yinghan Wang (17 years old), has been learning piano since the age of 5, and has shown extraordinary talent since childhood. She once studied under Elise Yun, a piano professor at Ohio State University, and Li Xiaoqian, a pianist from the Shanghai Philharmonic Orchestra, and was admitted to the Shanghai Conservatory of Music. She studied under the famous Chinese piano educator Professor Tang Jin at the Middle School attached to the Shanghai Conservatory of Music, and went to the United States in 2018 to follow the internationally renowned Taiwanese pianist Professor Ching-Yun Hu until present.
Hannah has won many domestic and international piano competitions, including third place in the 2020 Philadelphia International Piano Competition-PYPA Online Concert, first place in the youth group of the 2019 American Steinway Piano Competition, second place in the 2019 American Hartford Chopin International Piano Competition, first place in the 2015 Singapore International Piano Competition Junior Group, first place in the 2015 Hong Kong Asia Piano Competition Junior Group, first place in the 2014 Steinway Piano Competition East China Division first place, and Grand Prize in the 2013 Suzhou Jianwu Cup Junior Piano Competition.
In 2017, Hannah won the silver prize in the Shanghai Conservatory of Music Concerto Competition which is held every four years, and she was invited to perform a Mozart Piano Concerto with the Shanghai Conservatory of Music Symphony Orchestra. In 2019, at the age of 13, she held her first solo concert in Philadelphia, USA and performed a complete set of Chopin etudes, which received great response. She was invited as a special guest of Philadelphia WRTI Classical Radio, performing works of Beethoven and Prokofiev live.
In 2020, Hannah performed outstandingly at the PYPA Piano Music Festival in Philadelphia, and won the praise of many piano masters. She has performed in piano master classes with pianists such as Gary Graffman, Jerome Lowenthal, Dang Thai Son, etc., and she was invited to join the PYPA Young Virtuosi Academy, which admits only nine young pianists worldwide. She participated in the master classes, events, and performances of the 2020-2021 season.
In 2022, Hannah was a prizewinner of the 2022 Philadelphia International Piano Competition. This year, she was selected as a Yahama Piano Competition finalist.