Celebrated Chinese pianist Tang Jin is a Piano Professor in the Shanghai Conservatory of Music and a Guest Professor of Guangxi Arts University. She was the first Mainland Chinese pianist to have earned a Master’s Degree in Piano Performance from the Mozarteum University in Salzburg, Austria with Grand Distinction. She also later earned her Master’s Degree at the Hanover University of Music, Drama and Media in Germany with the highest honor. She is Guest Professor of Guangxi Arts University.
At the age of 12, as a child prodigy, Tang Jin held her first recital in Japan. She has appeared frequently as a solo pianist on stages across Europe, Japan and China, in venues such as Great Hall of the Salzburg Mozarteum Foundation, Salamanca Hall and Aichi Arts Center in Japan, Beijing Concert Hall, Shanghai Symphony Hall, Shanghai Grand Theater, Shanghai Concert Hall and Shanghai Oriental Arts Center, etc. In 2015, under the invitation of the prestigious Bach-Fest Leipzig, Tang Jin held her solo recital Bach and Chinese Music which was praised by European music critics as “a concert filled with noble cultural taste”. She has also made remarkable solo guest appearances at Summer Music Festival Salzburg, St. Gallen Festival Austria, Scriabin Piano Festival Italy, VCU Global Summer Institute of Music USA, New Music Week SCM, Chinese-ASEAN Music Festival and Shenzhen Piano Music Festival. In recent years, her solo concert tour in a dozen of cities in China received rave reviews from China Mainstream Media such as Liberation Daily, Wenhui Post, Music Weekly, Music Lover, Piano Artistry, Eastday as well PhoenixNet. She has also been interviewed exclusively by the FM94.7, the Classical Music Channel of Radio Shanghai which broadcast her live performance on many occasion.
As the winner of the concerto competition of Mozarteum University Salzburg, Tang Jin had cooperated with the Symphony Orchestra of Mozarteum University conducted by Maestro Dennis Russel Davis. Being the distinguished representative of Mozrteum, she played Mozart’s piano concerti with Salzburg-Munich Symphony Orchestra for the jointly held event by Austria and Germany celebrating the 250th Anniversary of Mozart’s Birth. Moreover, she has performed with China National Symphony Orchestra, Shanghai Symphony Orchestra, Shanghai Philharmonic Orchestra, Shanghai City Symphony Orchestra, Ningbo Symphony Orchestra, Wernigerode Chamber Orchestra in Germany, Osaka FORTE Symphony Orchestra in Japan, etc.
After accepting the teaching position in Shanghai, per her excellence in education and musical research, Tang Jin has been named Shanghai Pujiang Scholar and was an recipient of The Teacher’s Award by the Shanghai Cultural Development Foundation, the He Luding Foundation Grant of Shanghai Conservatory of Music and Shanghai Tang Junyuan Education Foundation, etc. Sponsored by Pujiang Talent Project, her music research on Baroque Court Dance Music was the first of its kind study in China. With the successful project in adjutant to Bach keyboard suite, she has been invited to give major academic seminars in many colleges and institutions. The Historical Style of Performance in Bach Suite is one of her most recent important publications for The Art of Music. As of today, many of her students have won important piano competitions in China and abroad.
Recognized by the international piano community, she often serves on the jury for international piano competitions: A. Scriabin International Piano Competition and Pozolli International Piano Competition in Italy, Nordic International Piano Competition in Sweden, Neue Sterne International Piano Competition and International Piano Competition of Hamburg Composers in Germany, The International Tchaikovsky Competition for Young Musicians etc.
Tang Jin started to play piano at the age of five with renowned piano pedagogue Prof. Shuxin Zheng. Having enrolled into the Music Primary and Middle school affiliated to Shanghai Conservatory of Music, she respectively studied with Prof. Fan Minjuan, Shen Mei, Wu Ying and Shao Dan. At the age of nineteen, she advanced her studies in Europa with the Russian piano master Prof. Alexei Lubimov and the German piano master Prof. Markus Groh. She went on to win many piano competitions: Shanghai International Youth Piano Competition, Japan Vienna Music International Piano Competition and the Getwings- Steinway Piano Competition in Austria. Additionally, she was awarded the Science, Education & Art Scholarship by the Austria Government and was granted the Yehudi Menuhin Foundation Scholarship and the Dean’s Scholarship of Mozarteum University.
Tang Jin’s first record Piano Music of Yang Liqing has been republished by Shanghai Music Publishing House.
