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Yang Jack Gao

Year of birth: 2003
Place of birth: Beijing
Educated in: New York
Place of residence: New York
(Plays in New York)

Finalist of the 65th Ferruccio Busoni
International Piano Competition

November 2024 Preselections

Watch Yang Jack Gao performance.

Program

S. Rachmaninov - Études-Tableaux op. 39, no. 6 F. Schubert / F. Liszt - Auf dem Wasser zu Singer S. 558/2 F. Liszt - Études d'exécution transcendante, S. 139: no. 5 "Feux Follets" O. Messiaen - from Vingt regards sur l'Enfant-Jésus: No. 10 "Regard de l'Esprit de joie"  

Biography

New York-based pianist Yang Jack Gao is developing a rising career as a pianist and composer. In November 2023, he won the first prize of Naumburg International Piano Competition. He is also a prize-winner in the Bösendorfer International Competition (second Prize), the Munz Piano Competition, (first prize), Gina Bachauer Piano Competition at the Juilliard School (winner) and the Steinway Junior Piano Competition (Second Prize). He is invited by Martha Argerich to perform in her festival in Hamburg in June 2025. In February 2024, he gave a recital in Carnegie Hall and included a world-premiere of his work. At age 17, he made his orchestral debut performing Rachmaninoff’s Piano Concerto No. 3. He is currently a student of Jerome Lowenthal and Emanuel Ax at The Juilliard School.