Born in 1995, Malaysian pianist, Hao Zi Yoh began her music studies at the age of 3. By the age of 12, she had already performed at Carnegie Hall as a gold medallist of the Bradshaw and Buono International Piano Competition. In the same year she also performed her own composition 'Bustling City and Peaceful Suburb', representing Malaysia at the Yamaha Asia Pacific Junior Original Concert 2007. She has appeared as soloist performing in festivals around Europe, USA, China, Japan and Malaysia, and has performed in prestigious venues such as the Wigmore Hall, Royal Festival Hall, Dewan Filharmonik Petronas (Malaysia) and Teatro Quirino (Italy).
Described as a young artist with great sensitivity to tone colour, Hao Zi has won top prizes in many international piano competitions, including the RNCM James Mottram International Piano Competition (Manchester, England 2012) where she performed with the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic under the baton of Hannu Lintu. Her success at the Concurso internacional de piano Rotary Club Palma Ramon LLull, Mallorca (Spain 2013) led her to concert tours in Spain, and also opportunity to perform with the Baleares Symphony Orchestra with conductor Pablo Mielgo.
Recently she received the Third Prize in the main category of Roma International Piano Competition and the Phillip Crawshaw Memorial Prize at the Royal Overseas League Competition. She part of the Talent Unlimited and is also selected as - one of only a maximum of three - Piano Fellow of the Philharmonia Martin Musical Scholarship Trust on the Emerging Artists Programme.
As a musician, she is also very much interested in music and colours. This led her to experiment with different musical ideas at the Royal Academy of Music Summer Piano Festival 2015 and 2016. (Please see Ideas/Projects for more information.)
Hao Zi had the privilege to have studied under Prof. Christopher Elton (Royal Academy of Music - Master of Music and Professional Diploma Course), Prof. Elza Kolodin (Hochschule für Musik Freiburg, Germany - Bachelor of Music) and Chong Lim NG (Malaysia).