Winner of the 2024 Australian National Piano Award, Joshua Han has been praised for “complete mastery of his instrument as well as complete empathy with the music” (Sydney Arts Guide). Joshua is an accomplished performer who has appeared with distinguished orchestras including the Queensland Symphony Orchestra and North Sydney Symphony Orchestra. He is undertaking a Master of Music Studies (Performance) under Dr Paul Rickard-Ford at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music.

An Australian-born pianist, Joshua started piano studies at the age of four with his mother. Following his first gold in the Sydney Eisteddfod at six years old, and his Licentiate of Music, Australia (LMusA) at 10 years, Joshua achieved considerable success in music. 

Joshua received first prizes at the 2014 Ettlingen International Piano Competition in Germany, and the 2015 Aarhus International Piano Competition in Denmark, where he also received the Audience Prize. In 2016, he received a Fellowship Recital Diploma from Trinity College of London at the age of 14. In 2022, Joshua received Second Prize and Audience Prize in the Australian Youth Classical Music Competition and First Prize in the New South Wales 2MBS Fine Music Young Virtuoso Awards.

Joshua was the first prize winner of the 2024 Australian National Piano Award, where he also received the prize for Audience vote and prizes for best interpretation of Bach, Chopin, and Mozart/Beethoven. At the 2024 Lev Vlassenko Piano Competition for Australian and New Zealand pianists, Joshua received Second Prize, Concerto Prize, the Queensland Symphony Orchestra Musicians’ Choice Prize and the Virtuoso Study Prize. He was also a recipient of the 2024 Inaugural John Lamble Helping Hand Grant to support a creative project for aspiring musicians.

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