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Hanbo Ma

Hanbo Ma

“Huge talent with polymath abilities and catholic tastes."
– THE PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER

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Hanbo Ma

“...she avoided using too many traditional
harmonies and instead chose to let the music
float in the air, like memories, elusive
and ambiguous.”
- Zhou Chumeng, Sina Music

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ABOUT

Establishing herself as one of today's promising emerging artists, pianist Hanbo Ma has made appearances in solo recitals, as well as being featured with orchestras throughout Asia, Europe, and North America. Her career began with her performance of Islamey by Balakirev at Severance Hall in Cleveland, Ohio at the age of 17, after which she received recognition by winning the San Jose International Piano Competition, the St. Andrews International Piano Competition, the Los Angeles International Liszt Competition, as well as others, and was selected as the only recipient of the Cobos Piano Prize given by Eastman School of Music in 2015.

Dr. Ma has given a number of concert tours such as an All-Liszt recital tour in North America and Europe sponsored by the Embassy of Hungary in Washington D.C, Liszt Memorial Museum in Budapest, Hungry and Hungarian Cultural Center in London, England; a series of concerts and master classes on French and Russian Music at the University of Tennessee-Knoxville, East Tennessee State University, Biola University and Wuhan Conservatory in China.

An active pianist, Dr. Ma not only performs solo recitals but also enjoys performing with chamber groups and contemporary composers. In 2013, she was invited to be one of the twelve scholars at the Heartland Chamber Music Festival, where her chamber performance was live-streamed on Kansas Public Radio. In 2017, Dr. Ma collaborated with the University of Southern California Chamber Orchestra to perform Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 2 while conducting from the piano. Dr. Ma has premiered a number of works, including a world premiere of Ben Kwok’s Sounds From the Lung Fields, Dr. Chih-long Hu’s Formosa Caprices in Canada, and Elizabeth Baker’s Four Plane, which is a piece the composer dedicated to Dr. Ma. Dr. Ma’s most recent project is in preparation of recording and premiering composer Michael Colina’s Piano Concerto with The Florida Symphony.More

▶ Hanbo Ma’s solo album “From Schumann, With Love” is available on all major streaming platforms

▶Hanbo Ma’s collaboration with Chinese poet Mengmeng Chen includes two original compositions based on Ms. Chen’s poetry

Recital Programs

Following my solo album of “From Schumann, With Love”

The recital program includes Schumann’s Op. 16 Kreisleriana and Op. 17 Fantasie in C Major. I’m also working on a project of all the piano works by Robert Schumann.

“The Conversation”

A recital program of Schumann Op. 17 Fantasie in C Major and Liszt Sonata in B Minor. A conversation and musical gift between the two great composers.

“Transformation”

A recital program of transcriptions of different sorts. The program includes Wild/Gershwin song transcriptions, Ravel’s La Valse, and Pletnev/Tchaikovsky The Nutcracker Suite.

“Hanbo Ma has made innovative contributions to the melody's conception and design. She focuses on presenting the core meaning of poetry in a narrative and monologue-like way.”

- Qian Zheng, Music China

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“Hanbo Ma created "New Year's Eve" with her usual agile and distinctive beautiful melody. She seamlessly fused classical music with pop music, and personally performed this original masterpiece.”

- Phoenix TV

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“...she avoided using too many traditional harmonies and instead chose to let the music float in the air, like memories, elusive and ambiguous.”

– Zhou Chumeng, Sina Music

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