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Zeyu Shen

Year of birth: 2000
Place of birth: Beijing
Educated in: New York
Place of residence: Hannover

Finalist of the 65th Ferruccio Busoni
International Piano Competition

Solo Semifinals

28/08/2025 11:15 CET

Program

F. Poulenc: Improvisations FP 63: 1. Presto Ritmico F. Busoni: Toccata, BV 287 A. Skrjabin: Deux danses op. 73 A. Skrjabin: Sonata n. 7, op. 64  

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Biography

Zeyu Shen, was born in Beijing, and has been educated and is currently based in New York. Zeyu studied at the Juilliard School Pre-college Division in 2015, and completed his Bachelor of Music at Juilliard in 2019, and his Master of Music at Juilliard in 2023 under the mentorship of Hung-kuan Chen and Jerome Lowenthal. In November 2016, Zeyu won the concerto competition held by Juilliard School, and performed in the prize winner concerto Rachmaninoff’s Piano Concerto No.1 with Maestro Adam Glaser and the Juilliard Orchestra in the Alice Tully Hall. He has won the first prize at the 41st Delia Steinberg International Piano Competition in Madrid, and made promising appearances in Busoni and Dublin International Piano Competition. Zeyu has been invited by the Leningrad Symphony Orchestra and the Tsingtao Symphony Orchestra.