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Yunyi Qin, pianist

First prize winner of the 50th Jaen International Piano Competitions in Spain, Qin has received a rare award of euro 25,000 and has won enormous praise for her masterful performance. Soon after the competition, the world’s leading classical label Naxos signed an agreement with her, and invited her on a global tour. This is the very first time that a Chinese pianist has been a prize winner in the competition, and she is the youngest among prize winners in the history of this competition.

On August 20 and 21, she joined Cyprien Karsaris, Lang Lang and other seven world’s leading pianists in the “China Piano Night” in the National Performing Art Center in Beijing, making it a showcase event to celebrate the ongoing Olympics. In September, she appeared in “Bravo China” in the National Center for the Performing Arts.

Born in 1992 in Suzhou, Qin studied the piano and revealed her unusual talent while still a child. In November 2007 she was the first prize winner of the Concurso International de Paino “Jose Roca” in Spain. In 2006 she was the first prize winner in group C of the 16th Young Musician International Competition “Cittadi Barletta” in Italy.

While studying in the Shanghai Conservatory of Music, she has attended the Shanghai International Piano Festival in four consecutive years, in which she studied with Paul Badura-Skoda, Dmitri Bashkirov, Boris Berman, Pierre Reach, Anton Kuerti, Cyprein Katsaris, Jerome Lowenthal, Fou Ts’ong and Russell Sherman, and Guillermo Gonzalez.

She has performed in Spain and France, where she was warmly received for her precocious pianism.