Ning Hui See in Resounding – A Piano Recital

Date and Venue
Manila Pianos Showroom, Makati City
March 8, 2025, 7:00 PM

Synopsis
Dr. Ning Hui See is a pianist and musicologist from Singapore recognised for her thoughtful concert programming and interpretations of music by underrepresented composers. A Kris Foundation Artist, Ning Hui’s homecoming concerts at the Esplanade Recital Studio have been lauded for her ‘refined touch, voluminous sound, and all-rounded musical personality’ (The Straits Times). She has given recitals throughout the UK, with notable venues including the Steinway Hall, St James’s Piccadilly, Austrian Cultural Forum, and Victoria & Albert Museum in London, as well as the Leeds International Concert Series, Yehudi Menuhin School, and Pallant House Gallery. She has also performed in France, Belgium, Italy, Sweden, and the Harris Hall at Aspen, Colorado, and has featured as a soloist with the Orchestra di Padova e del Veneto, the Lydian Orchestra, and the Danube Symphony Orchestra. Her performances have been broadcast on BBC Four, BBC Radio 3, and Singapore Symphony 92.4FM.

As a C H Scholar at the Royal College of Music London, Ning Hui’s PhD thesis (2024) examined ‘How Pianists Programme Lesser-known Solo Repertoire: An Autoethnography through Clara Schumann’s Sonata and Interviews with Four Pianists’. Her thesis, supervised by Prof Rosie Perkins, Prof Natasha Loges, and Danny Driver, explored issues of canon, musical value, and performer identity and agency. She has presented her research at international conferences held by the Royal Musical Association, European Platform for Artistic Research (AEC), Gender-Studien der Gesellschaft für Musikforschung (Hamburg), 'Women at the Piano' (Irvine, California), Institute of Austrian and German Music Research (Surrey), and Sibelius Academy (Helsinki). ​In her spare time, she enjoys writing programme notes for the Singapore Symphony Orchestra.

Ning Hui is presently an Adjunct Lecturer at the Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts (University of the Arts Singapore) for principal study piano, chamber music, and academics. Ning Hui was previously a Teaching Assistant at the RCM for BMus Historical Studies ‘History of the Orchestra’ and ‘Music and Power’. She has given guest seminars at the University of Freiburg and Duke University. Since 2013, she has maintained a private studio of diverse students, first in London, and now in Singapore and online. Her students' achievements include prizes at the Stratford & East London, North London, and Woking Festivals, and offers to study at the RCM and RNCM.
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Earlier in her career, Ning Hui was a laureate of the ‘Citta di Padova’ and Cesar Franck International Piano Competitions in Italy and Belgium. She was a 2014 BBC Young Musician keyboard finalist and the Grand Prize Winner at the 2012 Singapore Steinway Youth Competition. Entering the RCM aged 16, Ning Hui attained her BMus (Hons) with First Class and MMus with Distinction studying with John Byrne and Dmitri Alexeev. Awarded the Esther Fisher Prize for best undergraduate at the Chappell Gold Medal, she was a finalist in all the major keyboard and concerto competitions at RCM. She later received her Artist Diploma with Distinction studying with Deniz Gelenbe and Sergio de Simone at Trinity Laban, where she was awarded the Founder’s Prize for best accompanist. Ning Hui's childhood teachers include Fang Yuan (NAFA-SYT) and Prof Albert Tiu, while masterclasses with Barry Douglas, Sofya Gulyak, Arie Vardi, Yoheved Kaplinsky, and Peter Donohoe further inspired her artistry.

FEATURING
Ning Hui See, piano