Paul Ji piano 

The young Franco-American pianist Paul Ji studied philosophy at Yale University and piano at The Juilliard School. He graduated from Yale with a degree in Philosophy and was awarded the prestigous Louis Sudler Prize for Excellence in the Performing and Creative Arts, Yale’s highest distinction in this field. He trained for ten years with Qin Yingming, winner of the 1981 Long-Thibaud Competition, and received his Artist Diploma from the École Normale de Paris under the guidance of Jean-Bernard Pommier. A laureate of Carnegie Hall’s American Protégé Competition, Paul Ji won the Steinway International Competition seven times between 2010 and 2018. He was selected to represent France at the Steinway Music Festival at Hamburg’s Laeiszhalle and won the Berlin Rising Stars Grand Prix. He has performed four times at the Berlin Philharmonie since, including performances of both of Chopin’s piano concertos in 2024 and 2025. He has also appeared at Vienna’s Golden Hall of the Musikverein and at the Annecy Music Festival. In 2019, at the age of fifteen, he won the French television programme Prodiges and released his debut album on Warner Classics. Following prizes at international competitions in the United States and Europe, he embarked on a professional career as a recitalist, performing on prestigious concert stages worldwide.

This recital marks the release of Paul Ji’s Chopin album with Warner Classics—an album devoted entirely to the music of Chopin. For his second appearance at the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées, he presents a programme reflecting the composer’s poetic depth, lyrical refinement and extraordinary virtuosity—qualities he interprets with elegance, nobility and profound sensitivity.

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