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Piano 2023
Kai-Min Chang

Year of birth: 2001
Country: Taiwan, China

Kai Min Chang (1)
Kai Min Chang (2)

Born in 2001 in Taiwan, Kai-Min Chang is currently a student of T. S. Dang at the Oberlin Conservatory of Music, Ohio. He has taken part in many international piano competitions, and performed with many orchestras, including the Cleveland Orchestra and the National Taiwan Symphony Orchestra. In 2019, he was invited to play George Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue  with the National Taiwan Symphony Orchestra at Taiwan’s New Year’s Eve Concert.

Programme

Round 1

F. Chopin: Ballade for Piano No. 1 in G minor, Op. 23
L. van Beethoven: Piano Sonata No. 28 in A major, Op. 101
R. Wagner, arr. F. Liszt: Overture to Tannhäuser, S. 442

Round 2

J. S. Bach, arr. F. Busoni: “Ich ruf zu dir, Herr Jesu Christ”, chorale prelude, BWV 639
F. Mendelssohn-Bartholdy: Fantasy for piano in F sharp minor, Op. 28 (“Sonate écossaise”)
F. Liszt: Piano Sonata in B minor, S. 178
M. Ravel: La valse, poème choréographique for piano, M. 72

Round 3

S. Rachmaninov: Piano Concerto No. 3 in D minor, Op. 30

Awards received

  • 2nd prize, Thomas & Evon Cooper International Competition, Oberlin, United States of America, 2018
  • Jury’s Special Prize (Best Polonaise Prize), 4th Asia-Pacific International Fryderyk Chopin Piano Competition, 2018

Participation in competitions

  • 18th Chopin Competition Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland, 2021