Pianist,
Doctoral Candidate at New England Conservatory
Biography
A Bay Area-based pianist, Hanzheng Li has appeared on concert stages internationally in Europe, North America, and China. Her performances have been heard in venues like Carnegie Weill Hall, Kresge Auditorium, and Boston's Jordan Hall. Highlights of her recent appearances include the performance in New England Conservatory 2020 Convocation Concert.
Background
A fourth-year Doctoral of Musical Arts candidate in Collaborative Piano at the New England Conservatory (NEC), Hanzheng holds double Master's degrees with honors in Piano Performance and Collaborative Piano, Graduate Diploma in Collaborative Piano all from NEC, and a Bachelor of Arts in Piano Performance from Shanghai Conservatory of Music. She is in high demand as a collaborative pianist working with renowned artists such as Paula Robison, Donald Weilerstein, Paul Katz, and Laurence Lesser at NEC. She also served as an audition pianist for NEC String Department and Longy School of Music Vocal Department. 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
Hanzheng began studying music at the age of four and a half, won the First Prize of Golden Key National Keyboard Competition four years later, and released several performance CDs. Since then, Hanzheng has received numerous awards in national and international competitions, including Gulangyu National Piano Competition (2006), KAWAI National Piano Competition (2007), and International Keyboard Odyssiad Competition (2014). In addition to her solo performances, Hanzheng is an enthusiastic chamber musician invited to Bowdoin International Music Festival (fellow), Toronto Music Festival (fellow), SongFest (full scholarship), Cremona International Music Festival, and Beijing International Music Festival and Academy, where she worked with artists such as Graham Johnson, Margo Garrett, Warren Jones, Susan Graham, Paul Katz, James Conlon, to name a few.
Teaching
Over the past fouthteen years, Hanzheng has been coaching students from different stages. At NEC, Hanzheng has served as a teaching assistant for the Piano Department, the Collaborative Piano Department, and the Theory Department, teaching theory classes and private non-major piano lessons to undergraduate and graduate students. Her own private students have passed ABRSM and RCM with distinction, and won several competition prizes. With her extensive teaching experience, Hanzheng also holds Music-in-Education Concentration from NEC. In the summer of 2016 and 2017, she taught college students from Shanghai Conservatory, Wuhan Conservatory, and Nanjing University of the Arts in the Huiquan US-China Music Festival and Workshop in Boston.
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
