Chinese-born Canadian Young Steinway Artist Richard He successfully completed his Canada Piano Tour in 2022-2023, which he traveled through Eight major cities in Canada including Vancouver, Victoria, Toronto, Montreal, Calgary , Edmonton , Ottawa and Winnipeg and performed Liszt complete Twelve Transcendental Etudes and the Premiere of The Butterfly Lovers Violin Concerto for Piano Solo Arrangement.
Richard
He began studying piano at the age of four. He was given rigorous training by
Chun Hu Zhou, the Piano Department Chair of Shenzhen University. After
Richard won the first prize at the Shenzhen Piano Competition and performed
with the world-renowned French pianist Richard Clayderman at Shenzhen Civic
Center in front of 2500 people. The news outlets was impressed by how
musical Richard was at such young age, even called him” the young superstar
pianist of the next generation”.
Richard
continued his piano study with Dr. Anna Levy from Moscow Conservatory, an
apprentice of Margrita Feodorova who studied with the legendary pedagogue
Heinrich Neuhaus. Richard received a merit scholarship to attend the
prestigious Eastman School of Music in the United States, under the guidance of
Piano Department Chair Douglas Humpherys. He later graduated from Manhattan
School of Music with Master Degree in Piano Performance after working with
Jeffrey Cohen, an apprentice of the legendary pianist Menahem
Pressler. Richard has also worked with numerous renowned pianists such as
Richard Goode, Dang Thai Son, Jerome Lowenthal and Robert McDonald, Julian
Martin, Sara Buechner, Matti Raekallio and Edward Parker.
Richard He has won numerous awards including in 2023 he was appointed as the Judge for the 87th
Steinway & Son International Youth Piano Competition (China
Reginal), In January 2022 Richard awards the “Exceptional Teacher
“in the Canada Joy of Music International Piano Competition 2022. The
First Prize winner and the Special Management Prize in 2019 Amsterdam
International Music Competition Grand Prize Virtuoso and The Third Prize in
Rising Stars Grand Prix Berlin International Competition (1st place
vacancy). The Grand prize winner of
2018 International Shining Stars Debut competition in New York, USA, In
2017, the First Prize in Rome International Music Competition Grand Prize
Virtuoso, and The Third Place Honor at the 9th International
Rosario Marciano Piano Competition in Vienna, Austria.
Richard has been
performing in North America and Europe and has been invited to major
international music festivals such as the Seattle International Young Artists
Music Festival, the Gijón International Piano Festival in Spain, the Classical
Bridge International Music Festival in New York, the International Peace
Festival, Music and Beyond in Canada, Sea to Sky International outdoor Piano
Festival, etc. In addition, Richard He has given many solo recitals and
classical music appreciation lectures in China and Canada, and has performed as
a special guest performer at the Spring Festival Gala and the Chinese
International Film Festival Awards Ceremony in major Canadian cities。
Richard
He performed in many famous venues including the prestige Carnegie Hall in New
York, Kleine Zaal Concertgebouw in Amsterdam Netherland, Sichuan Grand Theater,
Chengdu, China, Teatro Studio Borgna of Auditorium Parco Della Musica Rome,
Italy, Shenzhen Civic Center, China ,Orpheum Theater, Vancouver. Queen
Elizabeth Theatre, Vancouver, CBC Glenn Gould Studio in Toronto, Centre
Pierre-Péladeau de l’UQAM - Salle Pierre-Mercure in Montreal, Arts common and
Winspear center in Calgary and Edmonton. Canada. ICON Tianfu Concert Hall ,
Chengdu, China, Chengdu City Concert Hall and the newest Sichuan Symphony Hall,
Chengdu China, Sky Concert Hall in Shenzhen which is the tallest Music Hall in
the world.
His
performance with orchestra including Vancouver Symphony Orchestra, New York
Concerti Sinfonietta, Italy “Orfeo Stillo” Orchestra, Vancouver Metropolitan
Orchestra, Sichuan Symphony Orchestra and Symphony Orchestra of Sichuan
Conservatory of Music.
Richard
He made his debut album Odyssey: Liszt Transcription in 2021. It includes Liszt’s arrangement of works by Ten famous composers such as Bach, Mozart, Beethoven,
Schubert, Chopin, and Tchaikovsky, as well as Richard He’s own interpretation
and composition of the anti-epidemic piano piece “Light of Dawn”.
Since September 2023 till February 2025, Richard He has
performed 18 solo concerts, 3 Piano Concerto with Symphony Orchestra in 11
major cities in China and He just performed Rachmaninoff Piano Concerto No.2 with Vancouver
Metropolitan Orchestra at prestige Orpheum Theater in Feb 9th 2025
in Vancouver.
Currently,
Richard He is the Artist-In-Residence at Sichuan Symphony Orchestra China
and Visiting Professor of Chengdu College of Arts and Science and School of
Arts, Jiangxi University of Finance and Economics。
“Richard
He is an extraordinary artist………….his music will touch and influence thousands
of individual......”Ron
Losby, President & CEO of Steinway & Sons.
“Richard
is a superstar in classical music......” Julie
Jordan, Artistic Director of New York Concerti Sinfonietta and the Professor of
Juilliard School.
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