Programme
Johannes Brahms(1833-1897)
Sechs Klavierstücke Op.118
- Intermezzo. Allegro non assai
- Intermezzo. Andante teneramente
- Ballade. Allegro energico
- Intermezzo. Allegretto un poco agitato
- Romanze. Andante
- Intermezzo. Andante, Largo e mesto
Claude Debussy(1862-1918)
Preludes
Les sons et Les Parfums Tournent Dans l’air Du Soir
Feux d’artifice
La Cathédrale engloutie
Minstrels
Musician Biographies
A graduate of the Royal Northern College of Music, Tianyang Han is a pianist performing and teaching in the UK.
Tianyang Han was inspired to pursue a career as a professional musician after hearing the famous Chinese pianist Yundi Li perform. In 2009, at age 14, she left middle school and started to study professionally with the esteemed teacher Danwen Wei and his assistant Lei Wang at the Shenyang Conservatory of Music. In 2014, Tianyang moved to England to undertake studies at the Royal Northern College of Music (RNCM) with Professor Graham Scott, having received the prestigious Lord Rhodes Scholarship. She graduated with a Master of Music. Since graduating, Tianyang has held teaching and accompanying roles at schools such as Brighton College and Dorset House School, and currently holds piano teaching positions at both Cheltenham College and Loughborough Schools Music.
Other than solo performance, Tianyang also regularly plays chamber music, performing alongside Yuuki Bouterey-Ishido and in her trio, the Valette trio, in various venues in England. The Valette piano trio has won various awards including the Hirsch Prize, Nossek Prize and Weil Prize. She has participated in masterclasses with Daumantas Kirilauskas, Sergejs Osokins, Marc Silverman, Michel Beroff, Pavlina Dokovska, Jerome Lowenthal, Jeffrey Cohen, Gwhyneth Chen, Jorge Pepi-Alos, Josep Colom, Jarred Dunn, Edith Fischer, Francois Dumont, Filippo Gamba, and Solomon Mikovwky. In 2010 and 2012, she attended the Italian Music Fest, Perugia, where she performed the Mendelssohn Piano Concerto No.1 with Sergei Babayan conducting. In 2018 and 2024, she received full scholarships to join the Semaine International de Piano & Musique de Chambre festival in Switzerland and have been invited back in 2025.
Other awards include winning prizes in both the Youth Class and the Chopin Ballade/Scherzo Class at the 16th Hong Kong-Asia Piano Open Competition, Third Prize in the Shenyang Conservatory of Music Competition in 2011 and 2013, and finalist at the 2017 Concerto Competition (RNCM).
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