Performing highlights
Among the most prestigious engagements was his appearance as guest soloist to a National Live PBS Broadcast at The Juilliard School’s 100 Years Centennial Gala alongside composer John Williams, actor Kevin Kline, violinist Itzhak Perlman, sopranoRenée Fleming, jazz composer Wynton Marsalis, and pianist Emanuel Ax where he concluded the grand finale playing Rachmaninoff’s Second Piano Concerto in 2006 at age 13. Other major highlights include his guest appearance at the U.S. National Symphony’s 2007 Season Opening Gala under the baton of former music director Leonard Slatkin,[5] with whom he was invited as guest soloist in the 2007 American Symphony Orchestra League’s Annual concert[6] and the 2010 Season Conclusion with the Detroit Symphony Orchestra. He was engaged several times between 2005 and 2007 to perform on NPR and accepted invitations by the renowned San Francisco, the U.S. National Symphony, the China National Symphony, the Brazilian National Symphony, the Dominican Republic National Symphony, the RTV Slovenia Symphony, The Detroit Symphony, the Taipei Chinese Orchestra, The Jacksonville Symphony, The Philharmonique de Nice France, The Norwalk Symphony, The Nashua Symphony, The California Symphony, the Corpus Christi Symphony, the East Texas Symphony, the Cedar Rapids Symphony, the Aspen Festival Orchestra, The Bowdoin Festival Orchestra, The Juilliard Orchestra, the St. Lukes Orchestra, the Nashville Symphony, the San Diego Symphony, the Orlando Philharmonic, the Big Spring Symphony, and the Midland-Odessa Symphony among numerous others. His performance at the 2007 American Symphony Orchestra League was recorded and released live by NaxosS Records,[7] and Channel Classics Records will release his debut album of his performances of standard and original compositions.[8] Aside from these orchestral engagements, he has played a major amount of solo recitals in cities including New York, Washington D.C., Beijing, Boston, San Diego, Paris, Baltimore, Kansas City, Key West, Greenwich, Cincinnati, Sarasota, San Jose, St. Louis, Orlando, Nanking, Shijiazhuang, Zhengzhou, and Qingdao. Future appearances, including concerts in San Jose’s Santa Clara University Concert Hall, Beijing’s National Grand Theatre, France’s Nice Philharmonic, and Beijing Modern Music Festival, makes his concert schedule extend to 2013, ending the season in a thirty-concert tour throughout the United States with the China National Symphony Orchestra.
Composing and educational highlights
As a composer, his First Symphony (2008) was nominated for the 2011 Hollywood Music in Media Awards, and the same work won the 2010 IBLA Grand Prize of Italy. His orchestral and chamber works won him six ASCAP Morton Gould Young Composer Awards in consecutive years since 2006, among them he earned the top prize of the Young Composer category. Within the last two years he has published four large-scale symphonies distributed by Hal Leonard Corporation, the largest sheet music corporation in the world. Thus far, he completed two one-hour symphonies, three large-scale piano concertos, six symphonic overtures, chamber music, art songs, and solo piano repertoire. His symphonic poem, Hourly Reminiscence, based on Kate Chopin’s story of the same name, won the 2010 Juilliard Orchestral Prize and was premiered by himself and Maestro Jeffrey Milarsky conducing the Juilliard Orchestra at New York’s Lincoln Center.
World-class conductors such as Michel Plasson, director of the Dresden_Philharmonic and the China National Symphony Orchestra, En Shao, principal guest conductor of the China National Symphony and the Macau Orchestra, and Leonard Slatkin, began to notice his unique artistic style of performance and his deep emotional sensitivity both as pianist and as a composer. Aside from performing and composing, he is the youngest known scholar of Austrian composer Gustav Mahler and his analysis of these works were profound that he was invited to give scholarly lectures at the National Center of Performing Arts in Beijing, guiding students and music lovers in detail throughout the works of the 19th and 20th centuries. He is obtaining a Bachelor’s of Music Degree under the guidance of composer Samuel Adler, and conductor Adam Glaser at Juilliard.
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