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WENYUAN PAN

 

Wenyuan Pan was born in Jinan, Shandong Province, in 2002 and began studying piano at age seven with Professor Wang Yao. At age ten, he entered the Central Conservatory of Music Middle School, where he studied under Professor Manchun Chen, and later became a senior student in the Piano Department at the Central Conservatory of Music. He has performed internationally across the United States, Germany, Poland, Spain, Portugal, Japan, and China, receiving guidance from mentors such as Christopher Elton, Bernd Goetzke, Michel Beroff, Kevin Kenner, and Guangren Zhou, and collaborating with orchestras including the Vietnam National Symphony Orchestra. His accolades include prizes and selections at competitions such as the Vietnam Hanoi International Piano Competition, the BoYa Piano Art Festival, the Santa Cecilia International Piano Competition, the Busoni International Piano Competition, the Leipzig Bach International Piano Competition, the Malaga International Piano Competition, China’s Golden Bell Award, and the Chopin International Piano Competition.

PROGRAM

 

First round

Ludwig van Beethoven (1770–1827): Piano Sonata No. 32 in C Minor, Op. 111

Frédéric Chopin (1810–1849): Nocturne in C Minor, Op. 48, No. 1

Second round

Franz Schubert (1797–1828): Piano Sonata in G Major, D. 894

Dmitri Shostakovich (1906–1975): 24 Preludes and Fugues, Op. 87: No. 5 in D Major

Semifinal

Joseph Haydn (1732–1809): Piano Sonata in C Major, Hob. XVI:50

Franz Liszt (1811–1886): Ballade No. 2 in B Minor, S. 171

Frédéric Chopin (1810–1849): Scherzo No. 2 in B-Flat Minor, Op. 31

Frédéric Chopin (1810–1849): Mazurka in A Minor, Op. 17, No. 4

Johann Sebastian Bach (1685–1750): The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book I: Prelude and Fugue in B Major, BWV 868

Final with Orchestra

Robert Schumann (1810–1856): Piano Concerto in A Minor, Op. 54