Presented by the Royal Academy of Music
Chinese concert pianist Jiali Wang is currently doing her BMus 3 at Royal Academy of Music under Professor Christopher Elton with scholarship.
Jiali began her career by winning the gold award of the Beijing Music Festival Competition, where she gave the prize winner recital in honour of Chinese Piano Music in Sun Yat-sen Memorial Hall. In 2011, she won the 11th Beijing Xiwang Cup National Piano Competition and was invited to give performances of the same concert series with Lang Lang in Peking University.
Throughout her career so far, Jiali has performed in many venues such as the Helsinki Temppeliaukio Rock Church (Finland), Xinghai Music Hall and New York University Concert Hall. She is a prizewinner in many prestigious international piano competitions, including the first prize of Gershwin International Music Competition (New York); the first prize of Alion Baltic International Piano Competition (Tallinn); the first prize of Harbin International Piano Music Festival Competition; Highly Commended in Chopin International Junior Piano Competition (Russia).
Jiali has shown a particular passion for chamber music, early music and contemporary music. In January 2022, she won the Harold Samuel Prize and Very Highly Commended in the Harriet Cohen Bach Competition. In the same month, she also premiered two piano trios in the concert series of Students Create Festival, Royal Academy of Music. In March, her piano duo won the First Prize in Royal Academy of Music Piano Duo Competition. Meanwhile, her piano duo and trio are also active on stage. In this year’s RAM summer festival, she gave concert Inspired by Bach in Duke’s hall, with two-piano pieces by Shostakovich and Bach.