Zhenni Li-Cohen

Zhenni Li’s riveting personality and passionate performances have brought audiences to their feet around the world. Hailed as “a magnetic pianist--with fire and poetry“ by music critic David Dubal and for her "...big, gorgeous tone and a mesmerizing touch" by The Philadelphia Inquirer, Zhenni Li has performed throughout North America, Europe and Asia in such notable venues as Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center’s Alice Tully Hall, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Merkin Concert Hall and WQXR’s Greene Space in New York, the Kimmel Performing Arts Center in Philadelphia, the California Theater in San Jose, the Berlin Philharmonie, the Grieghallen in Norway and the National Concert Hall in Tianjin, China.

Zhenni Li has garnered worldwide recognition as a winner of the 2017 New York Concert Artists Worldwide Debut Audition, Astral Artist’s 2016 National Auditions, the Grieg International Competition in Norway, and the unanimous 1st Prize at the Concours Musical de France. She is also a top prizewinner of the International Russian Piano Competition, Midwest International Piano Competition, the Kosciusko Chopin Piano Competition and The Heida Hermanns International Piano Competition. Her performances have been broadcast internationally through numerous sources including WQXR in New York, WRTI in Philadelphia, Canada National CBC Radio, Norwegian National Radio: NPK P2/NPK Klassisk, Texas Public Radio, WFMT Public Radio in Chicago, Iowa Public Radio and WWFM The Classical Network. She has also appeared as a guest artist for the New York Philharmonic Symposium on Stravinsky with conductor Valery Gergiev. She currently is on Piano Faculty/Chamber music coach for McGill School of Music for undergraduate students and is also the co-founder and Artistic Director for “The Last Soirée”, a multi-genre performing arts series which debuted in New York in spring 2018.