Programme:

Chopin — Ballade in F major
Debussy — from Images Book 2
Cloches à travers les feuilles
Et la lune descend sur le temple qui fut
Poissons d'or
Rachmaninov — Variations on a Theme of Corelli, Op. 42
Chopin — 24 Preludes Op.28

 

Born in Malaysia, Hao Zi Yoh has performed extensively in festivals around Europe, USA, China, Japan and Malaysia. At the age of 12, she was invited to perform at Carnegie Weill Recital Hall as a gold medallist of the Bradshaw and Buono International Piano Competition. Her composition “Bustling City and Peaceful Suburb” was selected to represent Malaysia at the Yamaha APJOC concert 2007.

 

She performed in major concert halls and festivals including Wigmore hall, Southbank Royal Festival Hall, St. Martin-in-the-Fields, Salle Cortot and Teatro Quirino. She also performed with orchestras such as the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic, Nova Amadeus and Balearic Symphony.

Hao Zi received piano education from Chong Lim Ng before moving to Germany at the age of 14 to study with Prof. Elza Kolodin at the Hochschule für Musik Freiburg, Germany. In 2014, she moved to London Royal Academy of Music for her Master's Degree and Professional Diploma under Prof. Christopher Elton and graduated in 2017. In 2022, she received full scholarship to study at Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance to study under Martino Tirimo.

 

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”.