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Who are the famous pianists?

1. Li Yundi

In 2000, 18-year-old Li Yundi won the championship in the 14th Chopin International Piano Competition. In 2001, Li Yundi made his debut on the CCTV Spring Festival Gala; in the same year, he signed a contract with the German DG record company and released his first classical music album "Chopin Selection". In 2003, Yundi Li released the album "Liszt Piano Collection", which won the German Classic Echo Award and the New York Times Record of the Year Award.

In 2007, Yundi Li released the album "Happy Berlin". In 2010, Li Yundi received the "Glory of Art" Cultural Medal and the "Chopin Passport" issued by the Polish government.

2. Yujia Wang

In 1999, as an exchange student in the China-Canada "Morning Music Bridge" cultural exchange project, she went to Canada to study piano at the Royal Mount Conservatory of Music in Calgary. In 2005, he performed Beethoven's "Piano Concerto No. 4" with the Ottawa National Arts Center Orchestra conducted by Zuckerman.

Won the "Gilmore Young Artist Award" in 2006; graduated from the Curtis Institute of Music in 2008; in January 2009, signed an exclusive artist contract with the German DG record company. In 2013, he toured Hangzhou as a guest of conductor Charles Dutoit and the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. On the evening of March 4, 2014, at the London Symphony Orchestra's 2014 Guangzhou Concert, the ensemble performed Rachmaninov's "Piano Concerto No. 3".

3. Wu Chun

Students under Professor Chen Wan, former head of the piano department of Wuhan Conservatory of Music. At the age of 8, he won the first place in the piano in Wuhan City, and at the age of 10, he won the first place in the Hubei Provincial Art Talent Competition. At the age of 13, he was admitted to the Wuhan Philharmonic Music School with first place and represented Hubei Province in the National Piano Competition held in Hong Kong in 1997.

Currently the only young pianist in China who has received three international doctorates. Wu Chun was hailed as “the Chinese piano star shining in Europe” by European media.

4. Lang Lang

In 2001, he conducted a 100th anniversary celebration tour at the Great Hall of the People. In 2002, he won the Bernstein Artistic Achievement Award. In 2003, he released his personal piano performance album "Tchaikovsky/Mendelssohn Concerto List". In 2005, he held a solo recital at the White House.

In 2006, he released his personal piano performance album "Son of the Yellow River". In 2008, he received the "Arts Honor Award" from the American Society of Recording Artists. In 2010, he won the International Mendelssohn Award and became the first Chinese to win this award.

5. Kong Xiangdong

The best and most active Chinese pianist in the international music scene today. Audiences in more than 40 countries and regions have experienced his passionate playing in person, and he has been praised by Western media as "only one or two truly exciting talented pianists emerge in a century" and "a generation of genius pianists." Proud son".

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