Jinhao Zhang
Principal
Jinhao Zhang was born in 1995 in Dalian, China, and grew up in Shanghai. He studied at the Tongji University, Shanghai from 2010 to 2014. He was a Silver medalist at the Genée International Ballet Competition in 2011, Prize winner at Prix de Lausanne in 2013 and won the Silver Medal and the Best Choreography Award at the Beijing International Ballet and Choreography Competition in 2015. He became a student at the English National Ballet School in 2013 and joined the English National Ballet in 2014, winning its Emerging Dancer Award in 2015. In the 2017/18 season, Jinhao Zhang joined the Bayerisches Staatsballett as a demi-soloist. He was promoted to soloist in season 2018/19 and to principal in season 2021/22 .
(Information as of September 2024)
Roles in the 2024/25 season (updated periodically)
Title role in Onegin (John Cranko)
Soloist in Le Parc (Angelin Preljocaj)
James in La Sylphide (Pierre Lacotte nach Filippo Taglioni)
Romeo in Romeo und Julia (John Cranko)
Selected roles in preceding seasons
Crassus in Spartacus (Yuri Grigorovich)
Wronski und Kostja in Anna Karenina (Christian Spuck)
Jean de Brienne in Raymonda (Ray Barra after Marius Petipa)
Des Grieux in The lady of the camellias (John Neumeier)
Siegfried/ Rotbart in Swan Lake (Ray Barra)
Albrecht in Giselle (Jean Coralli/Jules Perrot/Marius Petipa)
Theseus/Oberon in A midsummer nigjht´s dream (John Neumeier)
Solor in La Bayadère (Patrice Bart after Marius Petipa)