Pianist Jianhong Hu is a native of Chongqing, China. Currently serving at University of North Texas as a Senior Teaching Fellow, Jianhong holds an international reputation as a concert pianist and collaborator as well as a tenor. He has performed extensively throughout China and in the United States, most recently at Harbin Normal University and Chongqing Normal University. He has a special affinity for the music of Franz Liszt. His passion for Liszt resulted in his participation in the Weimar/Bayreuth Franz Liszt International Piano Competition and the Ferenc Liszt International Piano Competition in Budapest in 2015 and 2016, and he plays most of the major works of this composer. He has presented master classes at several universities and was invited as a faculty member at the Corfu Piano Institute in Greece in summer 2020 & 2022. He has developed a class of talented piano students in his studio in China and United States, and a number of his students have gone on to graduate study in the United States at schools including University of Miami, Bowling Green State University, California State University Northridge etc.