Born in 2009 in Shanghai, China, Zhiqian began his piano studies at the age of three and a half. Since 2015, he has been studying piano with Professor Kuanwen Wang of the Music Middle School Affiliated to Shanghai Conservatory of Music. He is currently a ninth-grade student in this school. As a young piano student, he shows great zeal for classical music and has an enduring fascination with the piano. His favorite composer is Chopin. Therefore, he has already played several of Chopin’s works in different genres. In the next two semesters, he plans to study all 24 preludes and the Concerto No.1 of Chopin. Besides, he has also learned many works from the Baroque, Classical, and Impressionist periods, and the great contemporary composers such as Wild-Gershwin, Kapustin, and Tan Dun. Since the 2022 academic year, he has been playing chamber music in the form of piano trio. Throughout his performances, the audience can feel his strong desire for expression and his communication with the composer that traverses space and time. He has performed in many different halls, such as the Shanghai Music Hall, He Luting Concert Hall, the Music Hall of Xiamen International Conference Center, and the Horowitz Concert Hall of Steinway House. In addition, he has attended a lot of piano competitions and won top prizes of major ones including Champion of 2023 in the Fifth US Music Certification Exams Piano Open Competition Finals, Gold Prize of 2022 in the 3rd Warsaw International Youth Piano Competition China Finals, and Second Prize of 2021 Shanghai International Music Festival Piano Competition. In May of this year, he was also selected for the 30th International Frédéric Chopin Piano Competition for Children and Youth in Szafarnia, Poland. Moreover, since studying in middle school, he has been the winner of the Niu Ende and RENMIN scholarships in two successive academic years.