Yuezhi Dou

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Award-winning pianist and educator Yuezhi Dou has emerged as one of the diverse, sought-after pianists and collaborators in the United States. In the past six years, he has performed almost a hundred recitals as soloist or collaborator and has worked with Grammy and Emmy award winners including Miguel Harth-Bedoya and William Sharp, as well as world renowned artists such as Denyce Graves, and Phyllis Bryn-Julson. Recent appearances include Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra, and recital performances with artists such as Brian Bowman, Jeremy Wilson, Adam McCord, Matthew Taylor, and Marisa Corsino; he was also featured on WWFM Radio’s “Celebrating our Musical Future” program.

He is the First Prize winner of the 2017 Baltimore Piano International Festival Competition, and a 2019 winner of the Piano Texas International Academy & Festival Concerto Competition. Mr. Dou also had the privilege of participating in masterclasses with such notable artists such as Arie Vardi, Leon Fleisher, Richard Goode, Dmitri Alexeev and Anton Kuerti. He is also a recipient of the prestigious “Clara Ascherfeld Award” for excellence in collaborative piano.

A passionate educator, Mr. Dou has taught for over ten years, especially devoting himself to nurturing young talents. He co-founded a team to establish an after-school arts program offering free private piano lessons at Baltimore’s Thomas Johnson Elementary Middle School, and is a jury member at American Youth Musician Union. He served as a competition judge for the Darwin R. Kirchhof Memorial Competition, the Lea Mirabella Senior Award, and the Gottlieb and Chase Piano Competition in Maryland.  More
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