Young Artists in Concert

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PROGRAM

First Half: Ruizhi Wang (Bachelor’s student)

Ludwig van Beethoven (1770–1827)
Piano Sonata in D Major, Op. 10 No. 3
Presto | Largo e mesto | Menuetto | Rondo

Frédéric Chopin (1810–1849)
Scherzo No. 2

– Intermission –

Second Half: Enlin Ni (Master’s student)

Frédéric Chopin (1810–1849)
Sonata No. 3 in B minor, Op. 58 (1st movement)
Allegro maestoso

Maurice Ravel (1875–1937)
Miroirs
Noctuelles | Oiseaux tristes | Une barque sur l’océan | Alborada del gracioso | La vallée des cloches

Ruizhi Wang, born in 2007 in Sichuan, China. He began playing the piano at the age of three. As early as 2016, following a global selection process, he was invited—as the youngest of ten talented young musicians—to the Allianz Junior Music Camp in Warsaw, where he participated in public master classes with Lang Lang and other invited professors and performed at the National Theater in Warsaw. In 2019, he was admitted to the Gulangyu Piano School at the Central Conservatory of Music in China. That same year, he won third prize (shared) in the children’s category at the “Lang Lang Shenzhen Futian International Piano Festival,” as well as the special prize for the best interpretation of a Chinese work. He has participated in numerous masterclasses, including those led by Vanessa Latarche, Manfred Fock, Antonio Pompa-Baldi, and Bernhard Goetzke. Since the 2026–27 winter semester, he has been studying piano at the Hamburg University of Music and Drama in Professor Mariya Yankova’s class.

Enlin Ni, born in 2004 in Guangdong, China, began taking piano lessons at the age of four with the Ukrainian music educator Vera Kozlova. In 2018, she moved to Germany and completed an international academic year at the Hamburg Conservatory as part of an exchange program. That same year, she began studying as a young student at the Hamburg University of Music and Drama under Mariya Yankova, with whom she further developed her musical skills. At the age of 16, she began her bachelor’s degree program. That same year, she was admitted to the master’s program, which had a significant influence on her artistic development. In 2021, she won First Prize at the Orbetello International Young Pianists Competition and was admitted to the finals in the Master’s Group. In 2023, she won Third Prize at the Kayserburg International Young Pianists Competition in the “Open-Professional” category in Germany, as well as Third Prize at the Schumann International Youth Piano Competition and the Alicante International Music Competition. In 2026, she won First Prize at the Tuscany Prize “City of Cascina” in Italy in Category C of the Young Pianists Section and achieved success in numerous other competitions. In 2019, she successfully participated in the Érard Festival at the Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe in Hamburg. From 2022 to 2023, she received the Carl-Heinz-Illies Scholarship. During her studies, she was actively involved in various musical events and performed at venues including the Elbphilharmonie Hamburg, the AIT ArchitekturSalon Hamburg, and the Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg. In addition, she has given concerts in various cities. She has also participated in numerous master classes, including those led by Susanne Achilles, Einar Steen-Nøkleberg, Mathias Weber, Ewa Kupiec, Ewa Poblocka, and Lilya Zilberstein.

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Donations are welcome and will go 100% to the artists.

in cooperation with the C. Bechstein Centrum Hamburg in the Chilehaus

Dates at a glance
16.10.2025
13.11.2025
11.12.2025
29.01.2026
26.03.2026
21.05.2026
10.09.2026
22.10.2026
03.12.2026