»Zhouhui Shen possesses a fascinating, playfully sparkling brilliance.«

Orangerie, Kirchheimbolanden

Zhouhui Shen received her Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees from the Juilliard School in New York under the tutelage of Hung-Kuan Chen. Shortly after beginning her musical training, she was accepted into the Shanghai Music Middle School (affiliated with the Shanghai Conservatory of Music), where she studied with Yunlin Yang and received a scholarship for outstanding artistic and academic achievement. She has also participated in master classes with world-renowned pianists such as Veda Kaplinsky, Matti Raekallio, Robert Levin, Boris Slutsky, Pavel Gililov, Jean-Yves Thibaudet, Nicolas Namoradze and many others.

Zhouhui is a prizewinner of numerous national and international competitions, including the 10th Telekom Beethoven Competition Bonn (Third Prize, 2023), the 9th International Piano Competition for Young Musicians in the Netherlands (Third Prize & Press Prize, 2016), the Juilliard Piano Concerto Competition (First Prize, 2022), the 4th Golden Lotus Music Competition (First Prize, 2020), the 63rd GROTRIA International Piano Competition (Third Prize, 2018) and the Aloha International Piano Competition in the USA (Third Prize, 2021).

Recent concert highlights include Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 2 with the Beethoven Orchestra Bonn under the baton of Dirk Kaftan at the Telekom Forum in Bonn and Brahms’ Piano Concerto No. 1 with the Juilliard Orchestra under Speranza Scappucci at Alice Tully Hall in New York. In 2024, she made her solo recital debut at the Orangerie Kirchheimbolanden in Germany. Zhouhui has also performed in many prestigious venues around the world, including Beethoven-Haus Bonn, Shanghai Grand Theatre, Shanghai Symphony Orchestra Concert Hall, Ningbo Grand Theatre, Shenzhen Concert Hall, Chengdu City Concert Hall and Kunming Concert Hall.

Zhouhui has participated in various music festivals, including the Beijing International Music Festival & Academy, the Shanghai International Piano Festival and the Shanghai Baroque Chamber Music Festival. In 2023, she performed Beethoven’s »Ghost« Trio with the Beethoven Trio Bonn.

In August 2024, her interview after the Beethoven Competition entitled »The Joy of Music: Insights from Young Pianist Zhouhui Shen« was published in the magazine »Piano Artistry« – the authoritative and only academic journal for piano music in China.