BIOGRAPHY

Boston-based Australian concert pianist Oscar Jiang enjoys a growing and increasingly varied performing career. He has made appearances on stages across the US, Canada, Taiwan, UK, Europe and across South-east Asia, with notable venues including Australia House in London, Salle Cortot in Paris, the Taichung National Theatre, Melbourne Recital Centre, New York’s Lincoln Center and Boston’s Jordan Hall.

His appearances include performances alongside members of the Grammy award-winning Parker Quartet, Handel & Haydn Society, and the Boston Symphony Orchestra, and as part of programs including First Mondays at Jordan Hall, the NEC Baroque Orchestra, Boston Early Music Festival, and the Dame Myra Hess Concert Series in Chicago. His interviews and recordings have been broadcast variously on CBS (USA) on New England Living, and Polskie Radio (Poland).

His various awards include top prizes at the Melbourne Recital Centre Bach Competition, Thailand International Piano Competition, Hanoi International Piano Competition and the Special Prize for a Work of Chopin at the Lev Vlassenko Piano Competition. He has attended festivals including the International Piano Master Course in Radziejowice, Poland, the Art of Piano in Banff, Canada, and others in Australia, USA, Canada and Japan, and was invited to the Gilmore Piano Festival in Kalamazoo, Michigan as a Festival Fellow.

His musical work also includes performance practice on historical keyboard instruments, specialising in 19th century romantic pianoforte, and having taken part in the 2nd International Chopin Competition for Period Instruments in Warsaw, Poland. Equally at home performing on both modern piano and historical keyboards, he is an advocate for education, research and preservation of original instruments that represent significant milestones in musical history, collaborating and presenting with historical piano collections and organizations across the US and UK.

Oscar was awarded his Bachelor of Music degree from the Juilliard School, and Master of Music degree from New England Conservatory, with support from scholarships from the Australian Music Foundation and Ian Potter Foundation. His mentors have included Matti Raekallio, Dang Thai Son, Alexander Korsantia, Bruce Brubaker and Malcolm Bilson.