Xiaoqin
Pan

Biography

Xiaoqin Pan began studying piano at an early age and was admitted to the Piano Department of the Central Conservatory of Music with excellent grades in 1999. In 2003, he was a finalist in the “Rachmaninoff International Piano Competition” in Taipei. In 2005, he won the Gold Prize in the Youth Professional Category at China’s “HAIZIMAN” Cup Oriental Youth Piano Competition and was invited to participate in the piano summer camp at Southeastern Oklahoma State University. In 2006, he won the Silver Prize at the 3rd “Almaty International Piano Competition” in Kazakhstan. In June 2007, as an outstanding student representative of the Central Conservatory of Music Piano Department, he participated in the Juilliard International Master Class – an event celebrating the 10th anniversary of Hong Kong’s return to China. He received high praise from Yoheved Kaplinsky, the head of Juilliard’s Piano Department, and was retained to work at the Central Conservatory that same year.

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Since beginning his career, he has successfully planned and organized numerous academically significant concerts: the 2013 “Schumann Art Song Concert,” the 2014 “Gounod Art Song Concert,” the 2015 “Ralph Vaughan Williams Works Concert” (China premiere), and in 2017, the “Mozart Special Concert,” “Eternal Classics 1 – Baroque Works Concert,” “Eternal Classics 2 – Bach Cantata Concert,” and “Eternal Classics 3 – Handel Chamber Music Concert.” That same year, he published an article titled “How to Make Recitative More Beautiful – Thoughts on Teaching Recitative” in the Central Conservatory of Music Journal, which was later included in the Central Conservatory of Music’s 40th Anniversary of Reform and Opening Up Academic Collection Series in 2019.

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In 2019, he won the Best Piano Accompanist Award at the first Yellow River Voice Vocal Competition. Many of his students have won gold, silver, and bronze prizes in various national opera performances and art song competitions at higher arts institutions, the “Fuji Cup” International Music Competition, and the Singapore International Music and Arts Festival.

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