Zhibin Chiam

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Zhibin Chiam lives for the magical moments of sharing great music with audiences worldwide. He worked as an accompanist for 12 years before he played for the Belgian-American pianist Tedd Joselson and with Joselson’s guidance has been developing his distinctive pianism of sensitivity, refinement and imagination ever since.

Season 2024/25 will see Zhibin Chiam performing at Music Fest Perugia in Italy, as well as 5 recitals at Baroque House in Singapore.

Within 2 years of starting a concert career, Zhibin Chiam has played with the Orquestra do Algarve and the Orchestra delle Cento Città, played with the conductors Marius Stravinsky and Maurizio Colasanti, recorded the Adagio from Grieg’s Piano Concerto with the Bohuslav Martinu Philharmonic conducted by Gevorg Sargsyan in Zlin, Czechia for Cicerone Music & Art, and has been signed by Price Attractions. His performances have taken him to Italy, Portugal, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Liechtenstein, Hong Kong and Singapore.

A pianist of distinctive pedigree, Zhibin Chiam presently studies with Tedd Joselson and is an heir in the lineage of Vladimir Horowitz, Rudolf Serkin and Clifford Curzon. He has studied with Boris Kraljevic who is a postgraduate of the Tchaikovsky State Conservatory in Moscow in the class of Lev Naumov, a pupil of Heinrich Neuhaus. He has taken masterclasses with Mikhail Voskresenky (who worked with Dmitri Shostakovich), Jean-David Coen, Ian Jones, David Fung, Rixiang Huang, Danijel Gasparovic and Christopher Elton. He also attended a summer school at the Musikakademie Tübingen, Germany where he studied with Wei Tsin-Fu.

Zhibin Chiam has garnered multiple awards and prizes including Bronze Hands at the Carles and Sofia International Piano Competition 2024, Distinction at the WPTA Italy International Piano Competition 2024, Gold Award at the Gold Star International Music Competition 2024 Singapore Preliminary, Finalist in the colORCHESTRA Auditions 2024, Career Project Prize at the 5th Swiss International Online Music Competition 2023, Silver Award at the 5th WPTA Singapore International Piano Competition 2023, Special Prize in the 2023 Pacific Stars International Piano Competition, Gold Award in the 1st Ars Nova Fest in Singapore, Bronze Award in the 1st WPTA Singapore International Piano Competition, and Platinum Award in the 1st Le Petit Performers’ Festival in Singapore.

Fees

Exam accompaniment services

ABRSM / Trinity Grades 1 - 5: S$120/hour of rehearsal time, S$120 per exam service
ABRSM / Trinity Grades 6 - 8: S$150/hour of rehearsal time, S$150 per exam service
ABRSM / Trinity Diplomas: S$200/hour of rehearsal time, S$200 per exam service

Rehearsals at studio with grand piano in Bukit Panjang

For collaborative performance engagements, please visit https://www.priceattractions.com/zhibin-chiam-piano

Instruments

Piano