Chinese pianist Ying Li is a winner of the 2021 YCA Susan Wadsworth International Auditions, as well as recipient of The Bridgehampton Chamber Music Festival Prize and the Tri-I Noon Recitals Prize. She has also received top awards at the Antonio Mormone International Prize, Sarasota Artist Series Piano Competition, International Liszt Piano Competition for Young Pianists, and was a finalist at Concours musical international de Montréal.

She has performed with leading orchestras including The Philadelphia Orchestra, New Jersey Symphony, Buffalo Philharmonic, L’Accademia Orchestra del La Scala, Staatsphilharmonie Rheinland Pfalz, and the Stuttgart Philharmonic, with conductors Lina Gonzalez-Granados, Xian Zhang, Dan Ettinger, Eric Jacobsen, Jonathon Heyward, Dame Jane Glover, and Leslie Suganandarajah.

Her recent highlights include concerto appearances with the Minnesota Orchestra, Kansas City Symphony, Orlando Philharmonic, Eugene Symphony, Aiken Symphony, and the Salisbury Symphony, along with festival performances as a Bravo! Vail Piano Fellow, her debut at La Jolla SummerFest, and a return to the Nantucket Musical Arts Society.

This season she will appear with the Chattanooga Symphony, Carolina Philharmonic, Kiel Philharmonic at Sala Verdi in Milan, Chamber Orchestra Aquila, Anchorage Symphony, Loudoun Symphony, and the Maryland Symphony. Recital engagements include the Milano Torino Festival Internazionale della Musica, Laguna Beach, The 222 in Healdsburg, and Hayden’s Ferry Chamber Music. She will also be featured on the YCA Season Finale at Carnegie Hall’s Zankel Hall in May 2026.

A dedicated chamber musician, Ying has performed at the Verbier Festival Academy, Ravinia’s Steans Institute, Great Lakes Chamber Music Festival, Norfolk Chamber Music Festival, and the Bridgehampton Chamber Music Festival. After earning her Bachelor of Music from the Curtis Institute in 2019, Ying completed both her Master of Music and Artist Diploma at The Juilliard School under the guidance of Robert McDonald.