Participant of contest 2023

Zhouhui Shen

Zhouhui Shen

Zhouhui Shen is currently studying with Prof. Hung-Kuan Chen at the Juilliard School in The United States. She has played the piano since the age of six, and in 2013, she was admitted to The Middle School Affiliated to Shanghai Conservatory of Music, where she began to study with Prof. Yang Yunlin, a respected Chinese piano educator of Shanghai Conservatory of Music. During her studies, she was a recipient of the school scholarship for performance and academic excellence.

Zhouhui Shen is a prize winner of numerous national and international competitions, including the 9th International Piano Competition for Young Musicians in the Netherlands (2016), the Juilliard Piano Concerto Competition (2022), the 4th "Golden Lotus" Music Competition (2020), the 63rd International Grotrian Piano Competition (2018), Aloha International Piano Competition in United States (2021), “The Golden Sunflower” National Youth Piano Competition (2015), and so forth. She has given an abundance of performances around the world. Most recently, she played the Brahms Piano Concerto No. 1 with Juilliard Orchestra conducted by Speranza Scappucci at Alice Tully Hall. She also has performed in spaces, such as, the Concert Hall of Enschede Conservatory in Netherlands, the Concert Hall of Shanghai Conservatory, Shanghai Grand Theater, Shanghai Symphony Orchestra Concert Hall, Ningbo Grand Theater, Shenzhen Concert Hall, Chengdu City Concert Hall, Kunming Concert Hall, and so forth. She has participated in various music festivals, including Beijing International Music Festival & Academy, Shanghai International Piano Festival and Shanghai Baroque Chamber Music Festival. In addition to her primary teachers, she has been instructed by Veda Kaplinsky, Matti Raekallio, Jerome Lowenthal, Robert Levin, Jean-Yves Thibaudet, Douglas Humphreys, Marc Silverman, Meng-Chieh Liu, Mingqiang Li, Eleanor Wang and other renowned pianists.