Aegeri Concerts: Zuger Sinfonietta meets AEGERI CONCERTS - Solistin: Huijing Han

Zug Sinfonietta
Conductor: Izabele Jankauskaite
Soloist: Huijing Han, piano

Program

Edward Grieg (1843 - 1907)

Two Nordic melodies for string orchestra op. 63

Robert Schumann ( 1810 - 1856)

Piano Concerto in A minor op. 54

Johan Svendsen (1840 - 1911)

Symphony No. 2 in B flat major op. 15

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Huijing Han, piano

Huijing Han was born in Shanghai. She received her first piano lessons at the age of three. She took piano lessons from various professors such as Dishan Jin, Ying Wu and Dan Shao at the Shanghai Conservatory of Music's primary and secondary music schools. After graduating from high school, she came to Germany to study music. She studied with Prof. Gabriele Kupfernagel at the Hanns Eisler School of Music Berlin (HfM). She completed her concert exam with Prof. Klaus Hellwig at the Berlin University of the Arts and, especially for chamber music in the piano trio, with Prof. Antje Weithaas at the HfM.

Huijing has received many prizes and awards, including 1st prize at the Berlin Piano Competition of the Renate Schorler Foundation, the Steinway Sponsorship Prize and 1st prize for piano trio at the 15th International Chamber Music Competition in Illzach, France. Her piano playing and musical talent have been highly appreciated by Amadeus Webersinke, Russell Sherman and Daniel Barenboim. Huijing took part in a workshop by Daniel Barenboim on Beethoven's piano sonatas in Berlin. At his invitation, she subsequently performed all of Beethoven's piano sonatas at Carnegie Hall in New York.

Invitations as a soloist and chamber musician have taken her to many countries, including France, Switzerland, Italy and China. Her live concert with Robert Schumann's Piano Concerto in A minor Op. 54 under the direction of Michael Helmrath with the Brandenburg Symphony Orchestra was broadcast on Rundfunk Berlin-Brandenburg. She has been organizing her own concert series at the Emil Schumacher Museum Hagen with great success since 2015. Among other things, she has created cross-over programs of music painting, music readings, contemporary Chinese music calligraphy and piano digital music. In 2025, she is devoting herself in particular to interpretations of female and Chinese composers.

Huijing is a piano lecturer at the Berlin University of the Arts and a visiting professor at various universities in China. She performs worldwide at chamber music festivals and piano recitals. Huijing lives in Berlin.

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Zug Sinfonietta

The Zuger Sinfonietta was founded in 1998. In its concert programs, it combines classical music with other artistic genres such as theater, drama, film, video, dance, painting, literature and various musical styles such as jazz, folk music, electronics and improvisation.

The orchestra works with artists such as Kolja Blacher, Olli Mustonen, Chiara Skerath, Dimitri Ashkenazy, Francesco Tristano, Thomas Hürlimann, Christian Poltéra, Paul Meyer, Benjamin Schmid, Eliana Burki and Giora Feidman. Since summer 2016, the orchestra has been performing its own subscription concert series in the Lorzensaal Cham. The concert schedule also includes performances with the Theater- und Musikgesellschaft Zug and concerts with Zug choirs, partners and cultural associations.

The Zug Sinfonietta has performed at the Lucerne Festival, Davos Festival, Murten Classics, Stubete am See and other Swiss events, as well as live concert recordings on Radio SRF2. Music education projects are developed and carried out together with various partners.


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