Zihan Jiang was born in Fujian, China, and began to study piano at the age of four. From 2015 to 2022, she studied at the Music Middle School affiliated with the Shanghai Conservatory of Music, under the tutelage of Prof. Natalia Filippova. Currently she is pursuing further artistic training in Germany with Professor Stephan Imorde, Roland Krueger and Gerrit Zitterbart. She was a recipient of Niu Ende Piano Scholarship, and her previous teachers include Shuhua Chen, Zhe Tang and Tianying Zhao.
Zihan has been awarded a number of First Prizes in international competitions, including the International Fryderyk Chopin Piano Competition for Children and Youth in China, Young Verona Piano Competition, Danubia Talents Liszt International Music Competition, Tchaikovsky International Piano Competition Online, International Keyboard Olympiad in Hanover, Scriabin International Arts Festival-Piano Competition, KAWAI Asia Piano Competition, Pearl River-Kayserburg International Youth Piano Competition, Shanghai International Youth Piano Competition, and Shanghai Piano Open Competition, among others.
In 2022, she successfully held three piano solo concerts in Shanghai. She has captured audiences with her charismatic stage presence, sensitive musicality, emotional depth and astounding technique. In 2021, she performed Tchaikovsky’s Piano Concerto No. 1 with the Wuhan Philharmonic Orchestra under the baton of Yifan Sun. She has performed in such iconic venues as the Shanghai Steinway Hall, Parsons Yangtze River Artist Center, Phoenix Voice Grand Theater, and Silk Road International Exchange Center.
Zihan has also participated in many music festivals and masterclasses, including Shanghai International Piano Festival & Institute and Mallorca International Piano Masterclass. She performed in masterclasses for such artists as Maxim Mogilevsky, Kathryn Brown, Douglas Humpherys, Antonio Pompa-Baldi, Matti, Raekallio, Andrzej Jasnski, Jerzy Sterczynski, Ewa Poblocka, Alexander Schimpf, Gerrit Zitterbart, Roland Krüger, Henri Sigfridsson, Konrad Maria Engel.
Aside from music, Zihan enjoys reading and writing, exploring new cities and meeting new people.