Zhang Keer is a fourth-year undergraduate student in the Piano Department at the Tianjin Conservatory of Music. In 2020, she was admitted to the Piano Department of Tianjin Conservatory of Music and studied under Associate Professor Liu Zhaozhi. In the same year, she was selected as an outstanding student in the Piano Department of Tianjin Conservatory of Music. In July 2021, she won the Excellence Award in the Professional Youth Group at the Xiamen International Piano Competition. In October of the same year, she represented Tianjin Conservatory of Music in a prelude exchange concert for the Golden Bell Awards held at the Central Conservatory of Music. She also performed the first movement of Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 3 in C minor with the Tianjin Conservatory of Music Youth Symphony Orchestra. In November, she qualified for the 13th China Music “Golden Bell Award” Piano Competition and received a certificate of qualification. In both 2021 and 2022, she won the first prize in the Yamaha Asia Music Scholarship Piano Competition in the youth group category at Tianjin Conservatory of Music. In 2022, she won the first prize in the adult group of the 11th Tianjin Piano Competition. In April 2023, she won the silver award in the youth group of the 11th Hebei Music “Golden Bell Award” Piano Competition, an important provincial-level event. In May of the same year, she achieved the highest honor by winning the Special Prize in the professional group at the 2023 UK International Music Competition (Piano). Throughout her academic years, she has been awarded the title of “Outstanding Student” at the university level for three consecutive years. In the academic years 2020-2021 and 2022-2023, she received the first-class scholarship for academic achievements, and in the academic year 2021-2022, she was awarded the national scholarship.
You can find Keer’s 2023 International Piano Competition performance here.