GAO PING is a composer-pianist born in Chengdu, Sichuan, province of China. He studied in the USA in the 1990’s.
In demand as a composer, he has received commissions and performances from musicians around the world. His music has been featured in importatn festivals in Aspen, Dresden, Wellington, as well as concert halls such as the Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, Salle Cortot, St. Petersbourg Philhamonic, and the NCPA in Beijing.
Gao Ping’s two albums, Story Teller—Gao Ping Chamber Music and Piano Quitet “Mei, Lan, Zhu, Ju”, released on Naxos label were critically acclaimed. His music also appears on NCPA Classics，Yamaha，Atoll, Vermes, and Rattles record labels.
In 2025, Ping Gao-Works for Piano was released on MDG(Germany)and immediately received high praises from magazines such as Klassiks Heute. Class:aktuell (Germany) called these works “Colourful, multifaceted, and original!” His other albums such as Outside the Window (piano music) and Pure Wind (Music for Chinese ensemble) were released by China Records Corp. and People’s Music. Piano Concerto No.1 was published on Shanghai Music Publisher. Since 2020, the Xi Nan Normal University Press published a series of Gao’s collections of music including piano albums Outside the Window (2020), Wanderings (2022) , and the song cycle Melodies Abandoned (2020).
In recent years, works such as“ Four Not-Alike”--concerto for multifunction pianist and Chamber Orchestra, and Wind Bamboo-for Xiao and Harp expressed a cross-culcural tendencies and pointed at new direction of Gao’s approach combining Western and Chinese instruments.
In 2016, Gao Ping was commissioned by artist Mr. Chen Danqing, the head of the Mu Xin Museum, to compile the music manuscripts by the late artist Mu Xin and to create new compositions with the material. He premiered these compositions in a concert at the Wuzhen Theatre which received much critical response from the press as well as the general audience.
As an obligatory work for the 2024 Xiamen International Piano Competition, Window at Dusk for solo piano, was premiered by over 20 young pianists from all over the world. The work received high praises from the performers, jury members, as well as the audiences.
Gao is currently a Professor in Composition at the Chinese University of Hong Kong-Shenzhen School of Music. He previously taught at the Conservatory of Music-Capital Normal University in Beijing and the University of Canterbury in New Zealand. He was appointed as the 2018 Composer-in-residence of Orchestra Wellington (New Zealand)，premiering orchestral songs Wild Cherry Tree.
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LISTEN TO SOME OF GAO PING`S WORKS:
- Piano concerto no.2 \"Evocation of Spirits\":
https://www.bilibili.com/video/BV1NaeHz6ESZ/?share_source=copy_web
- Four Not-alikes for multi-functional pianist and Chinese Ensemble:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9TnAmcRvtJ0
- Between Flicks of Fingers for 3 pipes:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vxf1ps2BRNI
Project Team:
Liduino Pitombeira
Yahn Wagner
Italo Spinelli
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