Lin Xu-Zhang – piano

The Programme

Lin Xu-Zhang – piano

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La Logivière

from Pièces froides
Airs à faire fuir

Embryons desséchés

Variations, Interlude and Finale on a Theme by Rameau

The Artist

London-based Australian pianist Lin Xu-Zhang is sought after as both a soloist and a collaborative artist. Lauded for his remarkable tonal palette and profound expressive depth, he has cultivated a bold and highly individual artistic identity shaped by his exploration of historically informed practices on the modern piano. As such, the distinctive artistic breadth he brings with his adventurous and inquisitive readings to a vast repertoire spanning from the Renaissance to the present day – including more than a dozen concerti – have garnered him widespread acclaim from critics, colleagues and audiences worldwide.

Recent highlights include performances of Arnold Schoenberg’s rarely heard piano concerto as well as his participation in the Royal Academy of Music’s Summer Piano Festival, where he performed selections from György Kurtág’s complete Játékok and Bach Transcriptions as part of the Kurtág Project. A devoted advocate for contemporary music, he has also premiered works by several esteemed classical composers such as Gerard Brophy, Alex Pozniak, Ian Munns and Katia Beaugeais. The upcoming season will see him present more than two dozen solo recitals across Europe and Australia.

Lin has recorded as a soloist for the Cranbrook Recording Studio label and is a final-year undergraduate student with Joanna MacGregor CBE at the Royal Academy of Music on a scholarship, receiving additional tutelage from Steven Osborne OBE and Andrew West. A distinguished laureate of several international competitions and the recipient of the highest concerto mark among pianists in his year, Lin is the recipient of the Academy’s Mozart Piano Concerto Prize and the University of Sydney’s Sydney Scholars’ Award. His formative training was shaped by the tutelage of Laurent Boullet, Clemens Leske Jr. and Lina Petkova.