Yilei Hao

Biography

Yilei Hao began studying the piano at the age of five. He earned a PhD from the Central Conservatory of Music in 2023. His teachers included Yuan Wu, Dan Shao, Danwen Wei, as well as Norma Fisher and Dang Thai Son, with whom he studied privately, among others. He won Second Prize at the Scottish International Piano Competition, was named one of the Top 10 Chinese Young Pianist, and is the first pianist to have won the Chinese Golden Bell Awards twice. He also won First Prize at the Giorgos Thymis International Piano Competition. He has performed with the Royal Scottish National Orchestra, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, Shenzhen Symphony Orchestra, and others, and worked with conductors such as Hannu Lintu, Marcus Bosch, and David Niemann. He is currently an Associate Professor at the Wuhan Conservatory of Music.