Zihao Nan was born in 2010, and began learning piano from several excellent instructors, including Han Han, Zhong Li and Tianyang Wang. He currently studies with Mr. Ruoyu Huang of the Central Conservatory of Music Beijing, China, where he is a student at the Piano Primary School affiliated with the conservatory.
As a young student, Zihao received several prestigious awards, including First Prize in Group B, amateur children Group B of the 17th Xinghai Cup Piano Competition in Beijing (2018) and First Prize of Children’s Group C of the 2021 Singapore International Piano Competition. He built on this success in 2022, winning Second Prize of the Millersville Keyboard Division International Piano Competition (Junior), Second Prize of the Beethoven Young Musician Competition (Junior), and Special Gold Medal for the preliminary competition of professional group A of the 2022 Golden Hall Piano Invitational Competition. Further building on this success in early 2023, he won First Prize of Children’s Open Group of 2023 Singapore International Piano Competition in China and Third Prize of the Professional Group 1 of the Schimmel China Youth Piano Competition.