Wang Ji

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Distinguished teacher of Grotrian

ABRSM Beijing Training officer

 

Award-winning pianist Wang Ji has been performing extensively across the globe including China, American, Singapore, Japan, Romania, Greek, Thailand, Poland, and Indonesia. She was the first prize winner of the Eastern Keyboard Competition in 2005 and received the Golden Prize of "De Yi Shuang Xin" Piano Competition in China in 2010. She was a semi-finalist of the Dinu Lipatti International Piano Competition and had the honor to meet the Prince of Romania in 2013. Wang Ji also received the Merit Diploma as the youngest competitor in the open category of the Argento Concorso International Piano Competition in Italy in 2013. In 2014, she was invited to the Kirishima music festival in Japan to study with NerikiShigeo from the University of Indiana. In August 2015, she performed Tchaikovsky Piano Concerto No.1 with conductor Anna Duczmal-Mroz in Koronowo, Poland. Following the concert, Noriko Ogawa described Wang Ji as “a pianist who follows the traditions appropriately, at the same time possesses mature and personal ideas”.

 

As a collaborative pianist, Wang Ji co-founded the “Ballerinas” piano duo with Dr. Lin Hengyue. Strongly supported by the Noise Matchbox, National Arts Council Singapore, the duo made a successful debut in Singapore in August 2017. The concert was described as “Highly spirited” by Singapore’s The Strait Times and “very sincere and heart-warming dialogue” from current music teachers and students. The Singapore’s Chinese newspaper “Lian He Zao Bao” described “Ballerinas” as “breaking away from the traditional impressions of Classical music”. The success of the debut concert soon led the duo to perform a tour in Shenzhen, China (September 2017) and the Voyage Festival Singapore (August 2018). In November 2018, the duo were invited by Steinway Artist Dr. Dean Kramer as visiting artists to perform at the University of Oregon, United States. 2019, the duo had another exciting concert tour in China and Thailand. Apart from playing in “Ballerinas”, Wang Ji also collaborated a successful concert with saxophonist Kenneth Radnofsky in the concert series “Home”, held at the Xinghai Conservatory of Music in November. 

 

Born in 1992, Wang Ji began to receive professional piano training since 2005 at the Xinghai Conservatory of Music Pre-College. Later on, she graduated from the Yong Siew Toh Conservatory of Music in Singapore under full scholarship, in the studio of Associate Professor Albert Tiu. Apart from performing, Wang Ji shares a strong passion in music education. She was invited to judge the Singapore international piano competition in 2021 and 2022.