Jin Tang
Jin Tang is a famous young Chinese pianist and an associate professor of the Middle School Affiliated to Shanghai Conservatory of Music. Tang’s first piano recital took place in Japan when she was only 12 years old. As a soloist, she has been invited to perform at various famous venues in Germany, Austria, Belgium, Sweden, Italy, America, Japan and China. She collaborated with world-renowned conductor Dennis Russel Davis and Symphony Orchestra of Mozarteum University performing Mendelssohn Concerto. During the commemoration of “the 250th Anniversary of Mozart” held jointly by Austria and Germany, she was invited to perform Mozart’s piano concertos by playing modern piano and clavichord, cooperating with Salzburg-Munich Joint Symphony Orchestra. She has also performed with the Osaka Forte Symphony Orchestra and Shanghai Philharmonic Orchestra. She was invited to perform at Salzburg Festival Summer, St. Gallen Festival, Bebersee Festival, the ASEAN Contemporary Art Festival and New Music Week SCM. In 2015, Jin Tang held her piano recital themed “Dialogue between Bach and Chinese Composers” at Bach Fest Leipzig. The recital was highly regarded by many European media, as “full of noble cultural charm.”
During recent years, Jin Tang has been presenting her recital tours overseas and nationwide. Her performances have received unanimous praise from academic circles both domestic and international. Her recitals have been reported by many mainstream media. “Jin Tang’s performance style naturally inherits features of German and Austrian piano school — restrained, calm, with inner strength, full of rationality …… She conquers the audience not only with superb skill, but also with delicate and sensitive music expression”, said Music Critics Shanghai Xinmin Evening News. FM94.7 Classical of Radio Shanghai has interviewed her and broadcast her recitals many times.
During her youth, Jin Tang had studied under Prof. Zheng Shuxing, Fan Minjuan, Shen Mei, Wu Ying and Shao Dan at Shanghai Conservatory of Music. Later she went to Europe and studied under the world-renowned pianist Prof. Alexie Lubimov, the last disciple of the great Russian piano educator Heinrich Neuhaus, and also the German piano master Markus Groh who was the gold medalist of Belgium Elizabeth International Piano Competition. With top scores, she earned the first master’s degree in piano performance from mainland China conferred by Mozarteum University of Salzburg. In addition, she was granted the Artist Diploma (equivalent to master’s degree) by the University of Music and Drama in Hanover, Germany. She has been honored with awards at Japan’s “Vienna Music” International Piano Competition and Austria Getwings-Steinwey Piano Competition. She was the winner of the National Arts Scholarship granted by the Department of Education, Science and Culture of Austria, as well as the Dean Scholarship of Mozarteum University.
Jin Tang has served as a judge for many influential piano competitions, including the CCTV Piano Competition Preliminaries in 2011, the Sweden Nordic International Piano Competition and China Shanghai International Students Piano Competition in 2014, and the 4th Germany Irmler International Piano Open Final and Italy Scriabin International Piano Competition in 2016. Many of her students have won awards at piano competitions either held in China or abroad.
In 2008, Jin Tang’s research project Baroque Court Dance Music was sponsored by the Shanghai Pujiang Elite Program and she was awarded the title of Pujiang Scholar. In 2009, her lectures and performance on Baroque Court Dance Music jointly organized with the famous German ancient-dance performer Jutta Voss, was the first academic research and trial of that subject in China. Afterwards, she lectured at many professional institutions nationwide on Historical Style of Performance in Bach Dance Suite, and the article was published on Art of Music, the academic journal of SCM.