Menia Qian Zhang

Chinese-German pianist. Piano teacher at Bonn International School. Menia Qian Zhang established herself in spite her young age (she began playing the piano when she was 6 years old) one of the leading pianists of her native place Xi´an / V.R China. Menia Qian Zhang began to study at the Music Conservatory Xi´an with the age of 12 as one of the youngest students ever. Since 2002 she initially continued the studys with prof..Michael Roll and prof. Arbo Valdma at the Folkwang University of Music Essen and University of Music and Dance Cologne.She then settled in Cologne,where she is working and teaching at Unieffectus e.V..Society for Cultural and Pedagogic Exchange. Menia Qian Zhan is regularly a welcome guest at diverse well-known concert places in Germany, Austria, Italy, Netherland, Estonia, Kroatien, China and Japan. Menia Qian Zhang is also a passionate chamber musician. She works regularly with colleagues in China and Germany. In 2005 and 2006 she was invited to play an accompaniment and be the interpreter for the renowned Swiss flute master Peter-Lucas Graf in his China tour. Menia Qian Zhang has been a member of the jury in the Liszt Memorial Prizes Hong Kong International Piano Open Competition in 2012 and 2014. She has also organised music projects in mainland China, Hong Kong and Germany since 2009. As a result of her intensive tutoring in Koln and Vienna, a great many of her students have won the first prizes in young pianists’ competitions in Hong Kong, Spain and German cities including Essen, Bremen and Bonn. Zhang is the Founder and Music Director of the International Music Festival Piano Point Vienna 2014 which consists of master classes, open stage lectures, gala concerts and an international competition for young pianists.