Zerui Pan is an undergraduate piano performance major at Bowling Green State University. He has studied with Xiaohui Jiang, Peng Peng, Xiaofeng Wu and is currently studying with Robert Satterlee at BGSU.
He won the first prize in the Nanjing Youth Group of the 5th KAWAI Asian Piano Competition, first prize of the Nanjing Youth Group of the 4th Hong Kong International Youth Festival, first prize of “Voice of Harmony” National Finals of China Youth Piano Open, Silver Award of Professional Youth Group of the 7th Macau Piano Invitational Competition, Second prize of Hannover International Piano Elite Invitational Competition. He also received a full scholarship to Bowling Green State University, was a finalist in BGSU Competitions in Music Performance (Concerto Competition) in 2021, and received alternate in the MTNA Young Artist Competition, Ohio division in 2021.
He has played in master classes for the vice president of the European Youth Piano Competition Association, German pianist Franco Reich; concert pianist Maxim Mogilevsky; Christopher Guzman from Penn State University; Arizona State University professor Cathal Breslin, and Antonio Pompa-Baldi, faculty at the Cleveland Institute of Music.
In October 2018 he held a solo piano concert in the Performance Hall of the Nanjing Academy of the Arts Conservatory of Music. In December 2020 he participated in the “Birth History of the Future Pianist” concert organized by Dr. Wu Xiaofeng, held in the Golden Concert Hall of Nanjing Poly Grand Theatre.