Niu Niu

Niu Niu is a pianist who was a child prodigy who took up the piano at age three and gave his first performance at six. His birth name is Zhang Shengliang; Niu Niu is a nickname meaning Little Ox. Niu Niu's professional career began in 2006 when he performed at Wigmore Hall. In 2009, he became the youngest performer ever to appear at Suntory Hall in Tokyo. Other career highlights include dubbing the piano performance of the manga character Wei Pang in the Japanese NHK network's animated version of Piano no Mori in 2018 and 2019. Niu Niu's recording career has been as precocious as his performances. It began in 2007, when he recorded the album Niu Niu Plays Mozart, released the following year. In 2024, he joined conductor Jaap van Zweden and the Hong Kong Philharmonic for a recording of Tchaikovsky's Piano Concerto No. 1.