Jack Gao

{{Short description|Chinese classical pianist (born 2003)}} {{use list-defined references|date=June 2025}} {{use dmy dates||date=June 2025}} {{Infobox musical artist | name = Jack Gao | native_name = 高阳 | native_name_lang = zh | birth_date = {{Birth date and age|2003|12|18}} | birth_place = Beijing, China | occupation = Pianist | instrument = Piano | genre = Classical | years_active = 2010s–present }}

'''Jack''' ('''Yang''') '''Gao''' ({{lang-zh|高阳|link=no}}; born 18 December 2003) is a Chinese classical pianist based in New York City. Gao first came to international attention after winning First Prize at the 2023 Walter W. Naumburg Foundation International Piano Competition and has since toured the globe as an artist, was a laureate of the Martha Argerich Steinway Prize in Hamburg, and won other major competitions worldwide.<ref name="Naumburg"/><ref name="ChopinProfile"/>

== Early life and education == Gao was born in Beijing and started piano at the age of four. He attended the Middle School attached to the China Conservatory of Music, studying with Tianhong Tan and composer Xin Xie, and later worked with Huiqiao Bao, Xu Fei and Elmar Gasanov. Since 2022 he has studied at the Juilliard School in New York with Jerome Lowenthal and Emanuel Ax, where he also won the school's concerto competition.<ref name="ChopinProfile"/>

== Career == Highlights include his Carnegie Hall debut recital in February 2024, a performance of John Corigliano's Piano Concerto with the Juilliard Orchestra conducted by Simone Young in Alice Tully Hall, and an invitation from Martha Argerich to appear as the second ever laureate of the Martha Argerich Steinway Prize at her 2025 festival in Hamburg.<ref name="PianoCleveland"/><ref name="Glocal"/>

== Awards and competitions == {| class="wikitable sortable" ! Year !! Competition / Prize !! Location !! Result |- | 2019 || Steinway Junior Piano Competition || Beijing || Second Prize<ref name="Naumburg"/> |- | 2023 || Gina Bachauer Piano Competition (Juilliard) || New York, USA || First Prize<ref name="Bachauer"/> |- | 2023 || Walter W. Naumburg International Piano Competition || New York, USA || First Prize<ref name="Naumburg"/> |- | 2024 || Munz Piano Competition || New York, USA || First Prize<ref name="Glocal"/> |- | 2025 || Bösendorfer & Yamaha USASU International Piano Competition || Tempe, USA || Second Prize + Sangyoung Kim Special Award<ref name="USASU"/> |- | 2025 || Martha Argerich Steinway Prize || Hamburg, Germany || Laureate<ref name="ArgerichPrize"/> |}

== References == <references> <ref name="Naumburg">{{cite web |title=Jack (Yang) Gao – 2023 Piano First Prize Winner |url=https://www.naumburg.org/naumburg-winners/jack-yang-gao |website=Walter W. Naumburg Foundation |access-date=28 June 2025}}</ref> <ref name="ChopinProfile">{{cite web |title=Yang (Jack) Gao – Competitors |url=https://chopincompetition.pl/competitors/680 |website=International Fryderyk Chopin Piano Competition |access-date=28 June 2025}}</ref> <ref name="Bachauer">{{cite web |title=Gina Bachauer Competition Winners 2023 |url=https://www.wqxr.org/story/gina-bachauer-competition-winners-2023 |website=WQXR-FM |date=11 October 2023 |access-date=28 June 2025}}</ref> <ref name="USASU">{{cite web |title=11th Bösendorfer USASU International Piano Competition – Winners |url=https://pianocompetition.music.asu.edu/competitors |publisher=Arizona State University |access-date=28 June 2025}}</ref> <ref name="Glocal">{{cite web |title=Yang Jack Gao – Glocal Piano Project profile |url=https://glocalpianoproject.busoni-mahler.eu/en/candidates/post/DB1D43A6-2E5C-4721-8C54-910B4AAB2073 |access-date=28 June 2025}}</ref> <ref name="PianoCleveland">{{cite web |title=Yang (Jack) Gao |url=https://pianocleveland.org/contestant/yang-jack-gao/ |website=Piano Cleveland |access-date=28 June 2025}}</ref> <ref name="ArgerichPrize">{{cite web |title=Symphoniker Hamburg on Instagram: "Wir gratulieren Yang (Jack) Gao … Martha Argerich Steinway-Preis Hamburg" |url=https://www.instagram.com/p/DLcZdJhPCmv/ |website=Instagram |date=27 June 2025 |access-date=28 June 2025}}</ref> </references>

{{DEFAULTSORT:Gao, Jack}} Category:2003 births Category:Living people Category:21st-century Chinese classical pianists Category:Juilliard School alumni Category:21st-century male pianists