As a 22-year-old pianist from southern China, Chenyu Wang entered the Royal Academy of Music in September 2020 for Bachelor of Music course, studying with Ian Fountain under full scholarship. Here she won the Academy’s Lilian Davies Prize for best Beethoven performance in October 2021, and 3rd prize at the subsequent BPSE 29th senior intercollegiate piano competition in March 2022. In January 2023 she won the 1st prize of piano recital award at Oxford Music Festival 2023.
She has performed in the Academy’s annual Summer Piano Festival concert series in 2022 and 2023 at Duke’s Hall, Angela Burgess Recital Hall and David Josefowitz Recital Hall, in “Bach keyboard Partita cycle”, “Essential: Schubert”, “Beggars of Life – Improvising to silent film”, and “Chamber Rolls: Kreutzer”.
Chenyu enjoys attending music festivals and masterclasses in different cities, and has been selected to participate in the Oxford Piano Festival (with full scholarship), Internationale Sommerakademie Mozarteum, Accademia Internazionale Estiva di Cervo, Morningside Music Bridge (with full scholarship), Académie Internationale d’Eté Nice and so on. She’s recently awarded the Polonsky Foundation Fellowship with full scholarship at the 2024 Aspen Music Festival and Schoo, in the class of Arie Vardi. She has worked with prestigious musicians such as Michel Béroff, Steven Kovacevich, Dmitri Alexeev, Robert Levin, Arnulf von Arnim, Akiko Ebi, Eleanor Wong, Aquiles Delle Vigne, Sa Chen, John Perry, and so on.
International concert venues she has performed at include Oratorio di Santa Caterina Cervo, Wiener Saal Universitat Mozarteum Salzburg, Concert Hall of Uniwersytet Muzyczny Fryderyka Chopina, Warsaw, Brown Hall of New England Conservatory, Boston.
Prior to London, Chenyu studied in the Middle School Attached to Xinghai Conservatory of Music in Guangzhou China 2014-2020 with Tiandong Huang, where she won the concerto prize of piano class and multiple scholarship awards for annual excellent pianists, and performed recitals at Guangzhou Steinway House. In 2016 she won 1st prize at Beijing Xinghai Cup, one of the China’s top national competitions for young pianists.
