Hong Xu

Since his debut at London’s Wigmore Hall, presented by Honens as part of the Competition’s comprehensive Artistic & Career Development Program, Hong Xu’s career has been on a steady trajectory forward. He performed at the Beijing Cultural Olympiad in 2008, has collaborated with esteemed conductors including Vladimir Ashkenazy, Hans Graf, and Yannick Nézét-Séguin, and has become a repeat guest soloist with the Hallé Orchestra and recitalist at Wigmore Hall. He also appears regularly with the London Philharmonic Orchestra, with whom he has toured China and made his Royal Festival Hall debut in 2012. After a decade living in New York, Xu has returned to China where he resides in Wuhan and is a member of the piano faculty at the Wuhan Conservatory of Music.