Mei-Ting

Piano

Royal Academy of Music, London

“Stunningly fluid” — New York Times

“A tour de force” — El Periódico de Aragón

“Astonishing” — New York Post

“Bewitching … Superb” — Boston Globe

“Immense sound … of orchestral size, both in amplitude and color” — Minnesota Star Tribune

“Of utmost virtuosity and elegance” — El Comercio, Perú

Critically acclaimed pianist Mei-Ting has been heard in many of the world’s greatest concert halls performing an extensive repertoire that includes the complete works for solo piano of Brahms, Chopin, and Debussy, in addition to all 32 Sonatas of Beethoven. After winning several major competitions, including the first Piano-e competition and the National Chopin Competition of the U.S., Mei-Ting’s career has taken him throughout most of the North and South Americas, Asia, and Europe, at venues such as Carnegie Hall and Lincoln Center in New York, Auditorio Nacional in Madrid, Tonhalle in Zurich, and Obecni Dum in Prague. His career has led him to performances in 22 countries through five continents.

He has collaborated with many major orchestras, including the Orquestra Sinfônica do Estado de São Paulo, the Prague Philharmonia, Orquesta Nacional de España, the Warsaw Philharmonic, and the National Symphony of Mexico, working with eminent conductors including Jakub Hrůša, Stanisław Skrowaczewski, Antoni Wit, Michał Nesterowicz, Pablo González, and Antoni Ros-Marbà. He has appeared in music festivals such as the Prague Spring Festival, the Festival de Radio France at Montpellier, the Spring Festival in Shanghai, and the Festival International de Piano de la Roque d’Anthéron, and Chopin in the Colours of Autumn festival in Antonin. In 2008 he performed for the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Poland. He is currently the artistic director of the Siletz Bay Music Festival in Oregon, US.

His appearances have been deemed “a stunning performance” (Newport Daily News), “superhuman” (Minnesota Star Tribune), “a colossal technique and vivid musical imagination” (Washington Post), and “maximum virtuosity and elegance” (El Comercio, Peru). He was named “musician of the year” by the Village Voice and nicknamed “daredevil” by the Minnesota Star Tribune. The Boston Globe depicted his playing as “a miracle of lightness, speed, and precision of articulation and pianistic shimmer” while Gilberto Ponce of Vision Escríticas, Chile, wrote that he has “enormous musicality, superb technique, impeccable fingering, [and] amazing dynamics.”

While performing the complete works of other composers, Mei-Ting transcribed and arranged several orchestral and operatic works, expanding the technical and tonal possibilities of the modern piano. A large portion of this project is based on works by Richard Strauss, which will be released as a monograph album in 2024. His most recent transcription of Sibelius’ Symphony No. 5 for two pianos will be premiered in Finland in July of 2024.

Mei-Ting is a Yamaha artist, and professor of piano and postgraduate tutor at the Royal Academy of Music in London. During the lockdown of 2020, his cure for boredom resulted in a release of Beethoven’s 32 Sonatas on YouTube as the “COVID-19 Beethoven Cycle”.

YouTube: Mei-Ting, pianist – https://youtube.com/channel/UC8MjUVZxehcfueboBJHILhQ