At 15, A Bu won the First Prize & Audience Choice of the prestigious Montreux Jazz Solo Piano Competition (2015 edition, Parmigiani Jazz Solo Piano Competition). At China’s Central Conservatory of Music aged 9, A Bu began to approach improvisation and soon developed a passion for playing jazz. At only four years old he started to play and study classical piano. And there is A Bu!! The young pianist has everything he needs for a successful international career and a role as musical ambassador for his country.īorn in Beijing in 1999, A Bu stands out as one of the most promising pianists of the Chinese jazz scene. Festivals and large concert halls are starting to host jazz concerts and there are also smaller jazz cafés springing up everywhere. The genre long had difficulty gaining a foothold in the country, where it was considered elitist and niche. Jazz from China? China is not exactly known as the heartland of jazz.
I regard him as a promising young jazz lion who has a brilliant career ahead of him and will surely be talked about for many years to come” – Michel Camilo A Bu is a highly creative and accomplished jazz pianist who is also a gifted composer. “It is always a personal thrill to find a ‘fresh voice’ within the jazz continuum. He is no longer a child prodigy, but his piano playing remains prodigious.
21-year-old Chinese piano prodigy and Julliard student, composer and winner of Montreux Piano Jazz Competition, A Bu is taking the music world by storm.
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