Chinese pianist JINGJING WAN recently received her Doctorate of Musical Arts in Piano Performance at the University of Michigan under the tutelage of Professor Christopher Harding. Ms. Wan holds a Master’s Degree in Chamber Music from the University of Michigan, and Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in Piano Performance from the Royal College of Music in London(UK) under the tutelage of Gordon Fergus-Thompson and Dimitry Alexeev.
Praised as a ‘Rock-solid’ pianist by the Singapore Strait Times, Jingjing has won numerous international competitions including the “Young Chang Cup” National Competition in China, the Yamaha Music European Foundation Scholarship in UK, the National Violin and Piano Competition in Singapore, “Ars Nova” International Piano Competition, and the Haeberle Memorial Piano Award. She has performed around the world, including with the Ann Arbor Symphony Orchestra, NAFA Orchestra and the Metropolitan Orchestra in Singapore, as well as at music festivals and recital halls in Spain, France, and Germany and the US.
Jingjing previously worked as a graduate student instructor at University of Michigan, and also worked as the assistant choir director at St. Augustine’s HEP in Ann Arbor and South Lyon, where she coaches weekly a choir of 90 children ages ten to eighteen. In Summer 2023, she served as Artist in Residence in All Seasons Community in 4 venues in Michigan and Tucson, Arizona and Naples, Florida. During then she gave 19 concerts of 5 different repertoire. Currently, she is working as the collaborative pianist and vocal coach at the Music School of University of Massachusetts.