Chi Ho Han (한지호; born 19 January 1992) is a South Korean pianist.
He has won the 10th Seoul International Music Competition,[1] 2nd Prize in ARD international music competition in Munich (with no 1st prize awarded)[2] and Silver Medal (2nd Prize) in Gina Bachauer international piano competition[3] in 2014, as well as 1st Prize and Audience Prize in the 11th Kissinger Klavierolymp in Germany (2013), Géza Anda Prize in the 12th Concours Géza Anda[4] in Zurich (2012), 2nd Prize and Audience Prize in the International Telekom Beethoven Piano Competition in Bonn[5] (2011), 2nd Prize and Special Prize in the Schubert International Piano Competition in Dortmund (2011), 3rd Prize in the Beethoven International Piano Competition in Vienna[6] (2009), 4th prize in Queen Elizabeth Competition in 2016.
He has performed in Vienna (Musikverein), Munich (Herkulessaal), Zürich (Tonhalle), Dortmund (Klavier-Festival Ruhr), Beijing (Forbidden City Concerto Hall), Seoul, St Petersburg, and Tokyo and has played with orchestras such as the Radio-Symphonieorchester Wien, the Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, the Münchener Kammerorchester, the St Petersburg Symphony Orchestra, and a number of other orchestras in Germany, France, Korea and the United States.
[7] He studied in Seoul Arts High School with Jiae Kim and with Prof. Kyung Seun Pee.,[8] and then he went to Germany and studied at the Folkwang University of the Arts in Essen with Prof. Arnulf von Arnim.
[8] He is now studying under Arie Vardi at the Hochschule für Musik, Theater und Medien in Hanover and at the international Piano Academy Lake Como[7]