Piano with Duanduan H.

Duanduan H was hailed “a genius artist that only appears every fifty years” by the great pianist Aldo Ciccolini. Laureate of the 63th Geneva International Music Competition and numerous other international piano competitions in Germany, France, China and Italy, Mr. H has performed throughout Europe, China and the United States in prestigious festivals such as Mecklenburg-Vorpommern Musical Festival, Festival of Radio France and Montpellier, “Orchestre National de Lille” Piano Festival, Focus Festival of Contemporary Music in New York, etc. Mr. H had also collaborated with great conductors such as Jean-Bernard Pommier, Michael Palmer, Scott Weiss, and Christian Ehwald. In addition to his career as an international soloist, Mr. H participates in musicological activities. Since January 2013, he is a member of the research group PLM-AIEM of Paris-Sorbonne University, which focuses on musical semiotic and rhetorical studies. Mr. H’s translation of Debussy’s Monsieur Croche from French to Chinese will be published by People's Music Publishing House in China in 2017/18. Mr. H advocates the importance of music in the community and at all levels of society. In April 2012, he was appointed to be the “Music Love Ambassador” by China Shanxi Music Radio. He has set up the Love Music classroom under his name at schools of poor area, and donated piano and other musical instruments. Born in China, resident in Paris and New York, Mr. H holds Master’s degrees in Solo Piano Performance from the Juilliard School, and in Musicology from Paris-Sorbonne University. He is currently completing his two doctoral studies in Musicology at Paris-Sorbonne University (including an exchange program with Columbia University), and in Piano Performance at the Juilliard School, where he is a recipient of the C. V. Starr Doctoral Fellowship. At Juilliard, he also holds the teaching fellowship in Secondary Piano and theory. Mr. H's third personal album with Naxos will be release on November 2018.