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"Beyond the Performance" Author: Zhang Haochen Producer: Utopia
"Beyond the Performance" Author: Zhang Haochen Producer: Utopia
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Introduction · · · · · ·
This is a music philosophy essay written by young pianist Zhang Haochen "outside of performance". Today, when there is a gap between classical music and popular aesthetics, the author attempts to tell the vivid, profound, delicate and vast perfect world of classical music in his mind. From the relationship between classical music and philosophy, aesthetics, history, and society, to the artistic life of composers who have left important marks in the history of music, to the resonance and tension perceived by the author in his career of dialogue with the piano, the essays in the book seem to be fragmentary, but in fact they coherently present Zhang Haochen, who is both a young man and a pianist, his understanding, love, attachment and expectation of classical music and the performance stage.
About the Author · · · · · ·
Zhang Haochen was born in Shanghai in 1990. He held his first piano recital at the age of five at the Shanghai Concert Hall. He studied under Lin Heng, Wu Zijie and Wang Jianzhong when he was young. In 2001, he studied under the famous piano educator Dan Zhaoyi. In 2005, he entered the Curtis Institute of Music and studied under the then dean Gary Graffman. In 2009, he won the gold medal of the Van Cliburn International Piano Competition, becoming the first Asian to win this top event; in 2017, he won the Avery Fisher Music Career Award.
Zhang Haochen has collaborated with many internationally renowned orchestras, including the Lucerne Festival Orchestra, New York Philharmonic, Philadelphia Orchestra, Munich Philharmonic, London Symphony Orchestra, London Philharmonic Orchestra, Orchestre de Radio France, Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra, San Francisco Symphony Orchestra, Los Angeles Philharmonic, Israel Philharmonic Orchestra, Sydney Symphony Orchestra, Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra, Mariinsky Orchestra, China Philharmonic Orchestra, etc.; his tours have spread across America, Asia, and Europe, and he has appeared at top music festivals such as the BBC Proms, Lucerne Festival, Verbier Festival, and Aspen Festival.
This book records some of the author's thoughts and insights from nearly thirty years of piano practice, and looks at various topics and figures in classical music "beyond performance" from a performer's perspective.
