Yiming Zhang

Yiming Zhang teaches at the piano department of Xinghai Conservatory of Music, and is an expert at the institution’s Chinese Piano Research Centre. He specialises in the discovery, research and performance of Chinese piano works.

His discography includes Wang Lisan: Complete Piano Works (Naxos 9.70248–50) and Ge Gan-Ru: Piano Works (Grand Piano GP835), and The Forest, an album of piano works of the Republic of China, was released in 2018 by China Record Group’s Beijing Branch. In 2019 he appeared in the documentary film Blank Offering – In Search of Wang Lisan, directed by Zhou Hongbo and produced by Shanghai Television.

Yiming Zhang has been invited to perform works by composers such as Ge Gan-ru, Ma Sicong, Jiang Wenye, Wang Lisan, Guo Zurong and Xia Rike in Beijing and Shanghai. From 2017 to 2018 he performed Beethoven’s 32 piano sonatas at the Shanghai Concert Hall’s Musical Afternoon Tea series, and in 2022 gave the recital Variations of Jade – The Journey of Tang Poetry alongside bass-baritone Shenyang, taking the project on tour in 2022.

Zhang published The Piano Journal of the Republic of China in 2017, and also compiled The Collection of the Republic of China’s Piano Music. To date, he has authored 43 papers and articles that have appeared in journals such as People’s Music and Piano Art. He has also translated several books from English to Chinese, including Carl Czerny’s On the Proper Performance of All Beethoven’s Works for the Piano.

Yiming Zhang was awarded his doctoral degree in piano performance from Temple University, where he studied with Harvey Wedeen (piano) and Lambert Orkis (fortepiano, contemporary music, and chamber music). Before leaving for the United States in 2006, his piano teachers included Daniel Cheng, Yao Shizhen and Su Bin.

Translation: Lesley Li