Duanduan Hao was born in China in 1990. He began his piano lessons when he was four and by the age of six was already drawing attention to his precocious ability. He then studied in Shanghai and in Paris, going on to win many prizes in international piano competitions in Germany, France, Switzerland, China, Italy and elsewhere. Now resident in New York and studying at The Juilliard School and Columbia University, he is a musician of some versatility, with an exceptional talent that has brought him wide critical approval.