Tianxu An

Highlights of his recent seasons included performances with the Mariinsky Orchestra under Valery Gergiev in St Petersburg, with the China Philharmonic Orchestra with Xiaotang Xia as part of the International Mariinsky Far East Festival, as well as solo recitals at the Mariinsky Theatre St Petersburg and Shanghai Grand Theater. He collaborated twice with Jia Lv, first with the NCPA (National Centre for the Performing Arts) Orchestra for his debut there on October, 2019, and later with the Macau Orchestra at the Grand Auditorium, Macao Cultural Centre in November 2020.

Mr. An has had major recital tours in China, with 19 cities in 2021 and a further 14 in summer 2022. In August 2022, he made his recital debut in Beijing National Centre for the Performing Arts and at the Shanghai Oriental Arts Centre. He recorded his first CD, a recital album for Alpha Classics, in August 2021, featuring works by Tchaikovsky, Rachmaninoff and Prokofiev, which was released in summer 2022 internationally.

Mr. An completed his Bachelor’s Degree in 2022 at the Curtis Institute of Music, where he worked with Meng-Chieh Liu and also privately studied with Dang Thai Son. In Spring 2024, he has finished the Master of Music Program at the Juilliard School in New York worked with Robert McDonald. He previously studied with Hua Chang at the Middle School affiliated to the Central Conservatory of Music in Beijing. In 2024, An Tianxu joined the Central Conservatory of Music as a young piano teacher in the Piano Department.

In 2023 and 2024, An Tianxu was invited for two consecutive years by the China National Symphony Orchestra and the Ministry of Culture and Tourism of the People's Republic of China to participate in the symphony concerts commemorating the 102nd and 103rd anniversaries of the founding of the Communist Party of China. He was also invited as a soloist to collaborate with the China National Symphony Orchestra at the concert celebrating the 75th anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China and was received by President Xi Jinping.

In 2023/24 season, His Highlights included performances with China Philharmonic Orchestra, Guangzhou Symphony Orchestra, Kunming Symphony Orchestra, a major China recital tour and new collaboration with members of a leading edge chamber orchestra, Novus-Classica Camerata Shanghai. His Vienna debut was with the Tonkunstler Orchestrain May 2024 and he performed concertos by Brahms and Ravel .

Tianxu has also received numerous top awards including first prize in the 2018 Albert M. Greenfield Student Competition; grand prize in the “Helen Cup” Shanghai International Piano Competition; and the second prize in the Wiesbaden International Piano Competition.

He has participated in master classes with Klause Baessler, Barry Douglas, Andrea Bonatta, Maxim Mogilevsky, and Yefim Bronfman, and most recently, at a play/conducting master class with Mikhail Pletnev under the auspices of the Géza Anda-Foundation.

Tianxu An is globally managed by Armstrong Music & Arts.