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Liu Hao (also known as 刘浩) is an outstanding young Chinese pianist.
He was born blind. He performs extensively, has received critical acclaim for his unique techniques for learning music and performing with many pianists while being unable to see.
Liu Hao, a renowned young pianist from China, was born in 2001 in Chifeng, Inner Mongolia.
Despite permanently losing his vision soon after birth, Hao started playing songs on keyboard at age 3, through which his love of music surfaced. By age 7, his musical talents and versatility thrived with the inspiration of the world-famous Chinese classical pianist Lang Lang.
For decades, Hao has been taught by many piano teachers, including Liu Yongxue, Wang Haibo, Zhang Zhiwei, Zhang Jin, Wang Qiu, and Li Huili, followed by Professor Sheng Yuan from the China Central Conservatory of Music for the longest time. In recent years, Hao has been under on-going careful guidance by Professor Jerome Lowenthal, a well-known piano educator of the Juilliard School. Since August 2022, Hao is currently enrolled in the prestigious Peabody Institute of The Johns Hopkins University under the direction of Piano Department Chair, Professor Alexander Shtarkman.
Liu Hao has held many piano recitals and performed at various demotic and international music venues:
Liu Hao has won numerous national and international piano competitions:
Hao has been featured by numerous Chinese national and regional television programs, including CCTV “Lesson 1《开学第一课》 [9]”. “The Genius Stage《天才舞台》”, “Juvenile China Strong《少年中国强》 [10]”, and “Challenging the Impossible《挑战不可能》 [11]”. In 2007, Hao was selected through vigorous screenings to perform with Lang Lang in the “101 Pianist Program.” Ten years later in August 2017, he was honored to attend the “Lang Lang Philanthropy Master Class” at the National Center for the Performing Arts. Hao also received an exclusive interview with Lang Lang in the famous program "Luyu You Yue (Chat with Luyu) [12]." In a January 2018 CCTV special program “I Want to Play for the Spring Festival Gala 《我要上春晚》 [13]”, he played duet of “Colorful Clouds Chasing the Moon [14]” with Lang Lang. In late 2018, Hao was honored the Young Artist title by Si-Yo Music Society Foundation (U.S.). In addition, his influential story has been adapted into two inspirational films "A Blind Piano Boy (2011) [15]" and "Dream Chasing (2016)", in which "A Blind Piano Boy" was starring by himself. Hao was also nominated for the "2012 Beijing Role Model".
Over the years, Liu Hao is very grateful to receive organizational or personal financial donations from the Beijing Apple Charity Foundation [16] , Zhou Libo & Hu Jie Public Charity Fund [17], Edifier Musicians Foundation [18], Si-Yo Music Society Foundation [19], New York Yellow Crane Club [20], etc. Beijing Yixi International Costume has also been making custom-made performance costumes for Liu Hao for a long time.
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