About Hank
Hank Xiang is a professional concert pianist and piano pedagogue with over a decade of teaching experience.
He graduated from the Sydney Conservatorium with a Bachelor of Music (Honours) in 2012, studying with Dr Paul Rickard-Ford. He continued his studies at the Rimsky-Korsakov State Conservatory in Saint Petersburg, Russia in the class of Nina Seryogina and Miroslav Kultyshev.
Hank has played in masterclasses with Paul Lewis, Markus Schirmer and Akiko Ebi, and was briefly mentored by Denis Lossev and Inge Rosa. He participated in the Lev Vlassenko competition of 2015, the Australian National Piano Award of 2018 and most recently, was the third-prize winner of the Maria Yudina International Piano Competition in 2019 in Russia. Throughout his studies Hank was a recipient of the John and Dorothy Vimpani Scholarship, the Theme and Variations Foundation, and the Ian Potter Cultural Trust.
Hank has performed in iconic concert halls across Australia and Europe and has worked as a soloist with several orchestras in Saint Petersburg and in Novosibirsk. He is also an active chamber musician and has performed in concert a large portion of the great piano trios, quartets, and quintets. In addition to standard repertoire spanning from Bach to Boulez, Hank has also delved into the field of modern music with a premiere of The Aether Rings… by Martin Friedel on ABC radio in 2010 as part of the ISCM World New Music Days festival. In 2019, he was among the performers of Allora & Calzadilla’s Stop, Prepare, Repair – Variations on “Ode to Joy” for a Prepared Piano hosted by Kaldor Public Arts Projects at the Art Gallery of NSW, and performed the work over twenty times.
As of 2019, Hank has settled in Sydney in the Sutherland Shire. Aside from music, Hank is also an amateur chess player.