Programme:

Albeniz: “Rondena” from Iberia Book 2

Mozart: Sonata in C Major K330 -1st movement

Ravel: From Miroirs

- Une Barque sur l’ocean

- Alborada del gracioso

Chopin: Scherzo No. 2 in B-flat minor Op. 31

Biography:

Malaysian pianist Hao Zi Yoh began her music studies at the age of 3. Praised for her sensitivity to tone colours, she has won prizes in numerous international piano competitions and performed in festivals around Europe, USA, China, Japan and Malaysia. Besides, she also performed with the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic, Nova Amadeus and Baleares Symphony Orchestra. Hao Zi’s debut album featuring impressionistic works by Albeniz and Ravel is set to be released in summer 2025. She is also an active chamber musician of De Beauvoir Piano Trio.

Most recently, Hao Zi made her debut at Kings Place under Kirckman Concerts, and performed at Lighthouse Poole, Norden Farm and Brighton Festival. She was also featured at Trinity Laban’s Showcase 2025, New Lights Contemporary Music Festival, performing a world premiere of Arnold Griller’s Concertino Introduction, Cakewalk and Allegro.

In Malaysia, Hao Zi studied under Chong Lim Ng, who showed her the path into the classical music world. She explored composing and her composition “Bustling City and Peaceful Suburb” was selected to represent Malaysia at the Yamaha APJOC concert 2007. At the age of 12, she performed at Carnegie Hall as a gold medallist of the Bradshaw and Buono International Piano Competition. Hao Zi moved to Germany to study with Prof. Elza Kolodin at the Hochschule für Musik Freiburg at the age of 14. Her successes in international competitions including Enschede, RNCM James Mottram and Concurso internacional de piano Rotary Club Palma Ramon LLull, Mallorca led her to performances and concert tours around Europe.

In 2014, she came under the tutelage of Prof. Christopher Elton as a scholarship recipient at the Royal Academy of Music London. She received 3rd Prize at Roma International Piano Competition, the Phillip Crawshaw Memorial Prize for an Outstanding Musician from Overseas at the Royal Overseas League Competition. She was also recipient of prestigious Martin Musical Scholarship Trust Philharmonia Piano Fellowship. She explored her relationship with music and her interest in creating sound colours with her Masters Degree Project 2016, which involved collaborating with percussionist Daniel Gonzalez to create a version of Ravel’s Gaspard de la nuit for Piano and Percussion. In her interpretation of “A Distant Voice of the Rainforest” by Chong Lim Ng, she included improvised extended piano techniques as well as improvised singing to draw the audience into the soundworld of a rainforest.

Apart from this, Hao Zi also participated in creative outreach projects led by the Open Academy for children and elderly with Dementia, where she performed in Music for Moment Concerts at the Wigmore Hall. She collaborated with author-illustrator David Litchfield and improvised to his storytelling of award-winning book “The Bear and the Piano”. In 2024, Hao Zi was awarded full scholarship by Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance for an Artist Diploma under Martino Tirimo.

Hao Zi remains in close contact with the music scene in Malaysia. She has given talks, performances and masterclasses to the students of University of Malaya, Bentley Music and Persatuan Chopin in hope to share her experiences and help the younger generation. During the Covid-19 lockdown, Hao Zi held online livestream and fundraiser for St. Nicholas’ Home for the Blind, Penang, Malaysia.

A Young Steinway Artist, Hao Zi is currently based in London. She is an artist of the Kirckman Concerts, Keyboard Trust London, Talent Unlimited. www.haoziyoh.com 

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