Biography
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Born
24 August 1995 (age 28)
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Born In
Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts, United States
George Li (born August 1995) is an Chinese-American pianist.
Li has been performing publicly since the age of nine. He has been gaining attention as a significant recitalist, chamber musician, and soloist with orchestra. At the age of eleven, he played at New York's Carnegie Hall in the new TV series produced by NPR, From the Top. He also performed on the Martha Stewart Show two weeks later.
Li has performed piano concertos with many symphony orchestra. Concertos include Haydn Piano Concerto No. 11, Saint Saens Piano Concerto No. 2, Beethoven Piano Concerto No. 1, Mendelssohn Piano Concerto No. 1, Mozart Piano Concerto No. 21, Schumann Piano Concerto in A minor, and Chopin Piano Concerto No. 1. These orchestras include the Cleveland Orchestra (Jahja Ling conductor); Xiamen Philharmonic (China; Tao Lin conductor), Symphony Pro Musica (Mark Churchill conductor), Simon Bolivar Youth Symphony Orchestra of Venezuela (Venezuela; Sarah Ioannides conductor), Boston Philharmonic Orchestra (Benjamin Zander, conductor), Brooklyn Philharmonic Orchestra (Arkady Leytush conductor), Spartanburg Philharmonic Orchestra (Sarah Ioannides conductor), Miami Symphony Orchestra (Eduardo Marturet conductor), Waltham Symphony Orchestra (Patrick Botti conductor), Nordic Chamber Orchestra Sweden (Christian Lindberg conductor), Princeton Symphony Orchestra (Benjamin Zander, conductor), Albany Symphony Orchestra (David Alan Miller Conductor), Lexington Symphony Orchestra (Jonathan McPhee), and Orchestra "I Solisti di Perugia" (Spoleto, Italy).
Li won the first prizes in the Massachusetts Music Teachers Association state competitions and the age of 6 and 7. In 2005, Li won second prizes in both the Virginia Waring International Piano Competition and the Cincinnati World Piano Competition at the age of nine. In 2008, Li won the second prize in the Gina Bachauer International Piano Junior Artist Competition. In 2010, Li has won the first prize in the Cooper International Piano Competition. Li has also won the first prize in the Young Concert Artists International Audition**.
Li resides in Lexington, MA with his family. He is a student of Walnut Hill School and the New England Conservatory Preparatory School, where he studies with Ms. Wha Kyung Byun.
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