Twenty-two-year-old Chenyu Wang, from Zhuhai in China, is currently studying with Alexander Korsantia.for her Master’s degree in music at the New England Conservatory in Boston.
From 2014-2020, Chenyu studied at the Music School affiliated with the Xinghai Conservatory of Music in Guangzhou where she won the piano class’s Concerto Prize and multiple scholarship awards with recitals at Guangzhou’s Steinway House. In 2016, she won First Prize in the Beijing Xinghai Cup, one of China’s top national competitions for young pianists.
In June 2024, she graduated with First Class Honours from the Royal Academy of Music, where she studied with Ian Fountain on a full scholarship. She also won the Edna Bralesford Piano Prize for the highest recital mark and was awarded the Polonsky Foundation Fellowship with a full scholarship to attend the 2024 Aspen Music Festival and School. In 2023, she won the Piano Recital First Prize at the Oxford Music Festival.
Chenyu has performed at many renowned concert venues including Jordan Hall in Boston, St James’s Piccadilly in London, the Wiener Saal of the Universität Mozarteum Salzburg, the Concert Hall of Uniwersytet Muzyczny Fryderyka Chopina in Warsaw,and the Oratorio di Santa Caterina Cervo.
.Chenyu has participated in prestigious music festivals such as the Oxford Piano Festival, Morningside Music Bridge, Internationale Sommerakademie Mozarteum, Accademia Internazionale Estiva di Cervo, among others. She has worked with distinguished musicians including Arie Vardi, Michel Béroff, Steven Kovacevich, Arnulf von Arnim, Eleanor Wong, Aquiles Delle Vigne, and Sa Chen.
