Piano Accompanying Studio
Huiping Cai
Piano Accompanying
STUDENT PROFILE
Charismatic and popular with audiences in recital and concerto settings, Huiping Cai is an engaging pianist renowned for her lyricism, musicality, and formidable technique. After winning First Prize, Best Concerto Award, and Best Recital Award at the 2017 Philadelphia International Piano Competition, she also won first prizes at the 2018 Miami Music Festival Piano Concerto Competition, the 2019 Chopin International Piano Competition in Hartford, CT, and the 2022 Los Angeles International Liszt Competition.
As a soloist, Ms. Cai has performed across the United States and worldwide including Mexico, Russia, Kazakhstan, and her home country, China. She has performed piano concertos with Shenzhen Symphony Orchestra, Evergreen Symphony Orchestra, Kazakhstan National Symphony Orchestra, Miami Music Festival Orchestra, Temple University Symphony Orchestra, Hong Kong VTC Symphony Orchestra, and Jalisco Philharmonic Orchestra. In May 2023, she gave a chamber music concert tour in Shanghai and Hangzhou with the Gallant Quartet, featuring piano quartets of Brahms and Schumann.
Ms. Cai received her MM in Piano Performance from New England Conservatory where she studied with Dang Thai Son and held a Teaching Assistantship. She is currently pursuing her DMA in Piano Performance & Literature under the tutelage of Alan Chow, and a MM in Piano Accompanying & Chamber Music under the guidance of Dr. Andrew Harley at the Eastman School of Music.