Piano with Mengyu L.

Mengyu is currently pursuing her master’s degree in Piano Performance and Pedagogy under the mentorship of Prof. Hamilton and Prof. Creviston at Arizona State University, where she earned her Bachelor’s Degree in Piano Performance in 2020. Mengyu was born in Hunan, China in 1998, began her musical learning journey at the age of 5. She attended to the attached middle school of Wuhan Conservatory of Music in 2013 and studied with Lianping Zhu, who’s the professor of the piano department. There she got her annual music talent scholarship. In 2014, She won the 3rd prize in the 7th Youth Piano Competition in Shanghai, then won the 1st and 2nd prize in Hongkong International Open Competition in the category of “Liszt Memorial Award” and “Beethoven Sonata Award”. Mengyu was honored with numerous scholarships and awards since she studied abroad - “Special Talent Award-Music Scholarship” and “student carillonneur scholarship”. Besides competitions, she also participated in masterclasses given by international pianists and teachers, such as Xiangyu Mao, Weicong Zhang, Stanislav Loudenitch, Arcadi Volodo, Yekwon Sunwoo. She also plays as a chamber music pianist with singers and choirs, other instrumentalists. She has already finished 8 recitals collaboratively. The repertoire collaborative piano spreads from piano trio to piano quintet, and famous broadway songs.