Cheng Wai

Steinway artist, Cheng Wai is renowned Hong Kong pianist, critically acclaimed as the “Beethoven’s Fifth Generation Successor” and “Piano Poetess”, and is among 2009’s “Top Ten Most Outstanding Young Persons Selection”.
Over the years of her dedication to music, she has won many awards on the world stage. She is among the first graduating class in Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts, later obtaining a bachelor’s degree from the Curtis Institute of Music, master’s degree and artist diploma from Yale University, and finished with her doctoral degree from New York State University at Stony Brook.

From 2017 to 2018, she toured 15 Chinese provinces in the concert hall for her “Dessiner la Musique, Cheng Wai Piano Recital China Tour”, achieving phenomenal success, selling out city to city, with Changsha and Chengdu being state sponsored performances. Not only was she the first Hong Kong pianist to be invited to tour by the China Poly Group, but she also reinvented classical piano performance by tying in paintings with piano performance to achieve full artistic utopia for the senses. In July 2017, Dr. Cheng Wai participated in the music gala honouring the 20th Anniversary of Hong Kong’s return to China, mentoring international movie star Donnie Yen in performing the “Yellow River Piano Concerto” with Lang Lang to welcome PRC Chairman Xi Jinping on his Hong Kong visit.

Source: Hong Kong Performance