Pianist, Educator,
Doctor of Musical Arts from New England Conservatory
Biography
Dr. Hanzheng Li, a Bay Area-based pianist, has performed as a soloist and chamber musician across Europe, North America, and China. Notable venues include Carnegie Weill Hall, Boston Symphony Hall, Kresge Auditorium, and Jordan Hall.
Background
Hanzheng received her D.M.A. in Collaborative Piano, dual Master's degrees with honors in piano performance and collaborative piano, as well as a Graduate Diploma from the New England Conservatory (NEC). She also holds a bachelor's degree in piano performance at the Shanghai Conservatory of Music. Starting piano at age four and half, she won First Prize at the Golden Key National Keyboard Competition at eight and has since garnered numerous awards, including in the Gulangyu National Piano Competition (2006), KAWAI National Piano Competition (2007), and International Keyboard Odyssiad Competition (2014). Her teachers are Chenbin Wu, Weiming Li, Denghui Huang, Yizhe Hong, Minduo Li, Yun Sun, Victor Rosenbaum, Vivian Weilerstein, Pei-Shan Lee, Jonathan Feldman, and Cameron Stowe.
Performing
As a soloist and enthusiastic chamber musician, Hanzheng has been invited as a fellow or awarded scholarship to the Bowdoin International Music Festival, Toronto Music Festival, SongFest, Cremona International Music Festival, and Beijing International Music Festival. She has worked with artists like Nelita True, Boris Slutsky, Susan Graham, James Conlon, and Jake Heggie. Highly sought after as a collaborative pianist, she has worked with prominent musicians like Paula Robison, Donald Weilerstein, and Paul Katz at NEC, and has served as an audition pianist for NEC and Longy School of Music of Bard College.
Teaching
With over 16 years of teaching experience, Hanzheng has guided students at all levels, many of whom have won top prizes in competitions such as the US Open Music Competition and the San Francisco International Piano Competition. At NEC, she served as a teaching assistant in the Piano Department, Collaborative Piano Department, and Theory Department, teaching both undergraduate and graduate students. She also holds a Music-in-Education concentration from NEC and taught at the US-China Music Festival and Workshop summer program from 2015 to 2016.
四岁半起学琴，八岁获宋庆龄基金会举办的第七届全国少年儿童“金钥匙”电子琴比赛全国一等奖，后出版发行多张CD。之后在鼓浪屿全国青少年钢琴比赛 (2006)、全国“KAWAI卡瓦依杯”钢琴比赛 (2007)、Odyssiad国际钢琴比赛 (2014) 中获奖，并受邀在纽约卡内基音乐厅、波士顿Symphony Hall、Jordan Hall、麻省理工学院贝壳剧院、洛杉矶Zipper Concert Hall等地演出。也曾在新英格兰音乐学院、Longy School of Music of Bard College弦乐系和声乐系的大学入学考试中担任钢琴艺术辅导。
11/23/2021 DMA Final Recital Anthony León, tenor; Emma Robertson, soprano New England Conservatory | Boston, MA
05/15/2021 Love, Loss, and Healing: A Recital – The Lyrica Trio Anthony León, tenor; Emma Robertson, soprano Harvard Musical Association | Boston, MA
05/06/2021 Liederabend LIV: Ten Premiere Performances Andrew Stack, tenor; Michaela Kelly, soprano New England Conservatory | Boston, MA
05/03/2021 DMA 2nd Recital Anthony León, tenor New England Conservatory | Boston, MA
03/29/2021 Song Lab Master Class: Thomas Hampson, Baritone Angela Yam, soprano New England Conservatory | Boston, MA
03/05/2021 Liederabend LII: Art Songs and Spirituals by African American Composers Elaine Daiber, soprano New England Conservatory | Boston, MA
02/07/2021 Song Lab Master Class II: Darryl Taylor, African American Art Songs and Spirituals Elaine Daiber, soprano New England Conservatory | Boston, MA
2020
12/10/2020 Liederbaend LI: A Heine Liederabend Lucas Ludwig Coura, countertenor New England Conservatory | Boston, MA
12/03/2020 Liederabend L | Forbidden Songs: Jewish Voices Uncensored Theodora Nestorova, soprano New England Conservatory | Boston, MA
10/28/2020 Liederabend XLIX: Schubert Philippe L'Ésperance, tenor New England Conservatory | Boston, MA
03/12/2020 (Cancelled) Moments of Memory: An Evening of Art Song Chase Young Art Gallery | Boston, MA
03/09/2020 Sunwei Li and Zhenpeng Zhang Voice Recital New England Conservatory | Boston, MA
03/02/2020 Liederabend XLVIII Matthew O’Donnell, baritone New England Conservatory | Boston, MA
03/01/2020 Sangwon Lee Clarinet GD Graduation Recital New England Conservatory | Boston, MA
02/14/2020 Love & Other Nonsense Celeste Pellegrino, soprano; Larisa Bainton, soprano; Juan Suares, baritone; Hannah Shanefield, soprano; Katelyn Hemling, soprano The Puppet Showplace Theater | Brookline, MA
02/2020 Pianist for Voice Department Audition Longy School of Music of Bard College | Cambridge, MA
02/2020 Pianist for String Department Audition New England Conservatory | Boston, MA
2019
12/05/2019 Sonata Night XXX Chia Yi Su, cellist New England Conservatory | Boston, MA
12/04/2019 Liederabend XLVI | Hugo Wolf: Selections from Mörike-Liederbuch Megan Hull, soprano New England Conservatory | Boston, MA
10/26/2019 Julia Liao Student Violin Recital Brookline Village Library | Brookline, MA
09/27/2019 Symposium Dinner in Honor of Prof. Jene Golovchenko Jessica Shand, flutist Harvard Faculty Club | Cambridge, MA
07/2019 Toronto Music Festival Toronto University | Toronto, Canada
06/2019 SongFest Colburn Conservatory of Music | Los Angeles, CA
05/17/2019 Madeline Cawley Flute Recital Park Street Church | Boston, MA
05/06/2019 Hye Jin Lee Voice MM Graduation Recital New England Conservatory | Boston, MA
04/29/2019 Sarah Nalty, Marina Beeson, Sunwei Li Voice Recital New England Conservatory | Boston, MA
04/28/2019 Andrew Port Oboe Graduation Recital New England Conservatory | Boston, MA
04/22/2019 DMA First Recital Shuxiang Yang, violinist; Celeste Godin, soprano; Whitney Robinson, mezzo-soprano New England Conservatory | Boston, MA
04/12/2019 Kate Davison Flute Graduation Recital New England Conservatory | Boston, MA
03/25/2019 Jessica Shand Flute Recital New England Conservatory | Boston, MA
02/27/2019 Liederabend Seiyoung Kim, tenor New England Conservatory | Boston, MA
01/31/2019 Sonata Night: A Centennial Celebration of Viola & Piano Masterpieces Martine Thomas, violist New England Conservatory | Boston, MA
