Ning Hui See

Ning Hui See is a pianist and researcher recognised for her “refined touch, voluminous sound and an all-rounded musical personality” (The Straits Times). Ning Hui’s doctoral research ‘Concert Programming Strategies: Clara Wieck-Schumann’s Piano Sonata’ examines issues of gender, value and the musical canon. She is passionate about the meaningful integration of non-canonical composers into classical music concerts and education. She is supervised by Dr Natasha Loges and Danny Driver at the Royal College of Music London, with the support of a C H Scholarship. She has presented her research at the RMA/BFE Research Students Conference and the Institute of Austrian and German Music Research Conference (Surrey). ​Ning Hui is currently a Graduate Teaching Assistant for historical studies at the RCM.

Born in 1996 in Singapore, Ning Hui has been based in London since 2012. She has given recitals at the Steinway Hall, Regent Hall, St. Martin-in-the-Fields, St James’ Piccadilly, the Old Royal Naval College, the Austrian Cultural Forum, Victoria & Albert Museum and Leighton House Museum. Elsewhere in the UK, she has performed at the Pallant House Gallery, The Venue at the Leeds College of Music, the Wells Cathedral School and the Yehudi Menuhin School. Additional concerts have brought her to Padua and Venice in Italy, the Steinway Gallery in Manila and the Harris Hall at Aspen, Colorado. She performed the Grieg Piano Concerto with the Orchestra di Padova e del Veneto in Padua and Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 3 with the Danube Orchestra in Budapest. Over the years, her homecoming concerts at the Esplanade Recital Studio in Singapore have been lauded for her passion, her sound and her mastery of various styles. Ning Hui has been featured on BBC Four, BBC Radio 3 and Symphony 92.4FM. She is an artist with Kris Foundation.

Ning Hui is a laureate of the “Citta di Padova” International Competition in Italy, the Cesar Franck International Piano Competition in Belgium, the RCM Esther Fisher Prize and the MMSF Mark James Piano Award. She was a 2014 BBC Young Musician keyboard finalist and the Grand Prize Winner at the 2012 Singapore Steinway Youth Competition. Ning Hui received her early musical training in Singapore from Fang Yuan and Albert Tiu. Masterclasses with Barry Douglas, Martino Tirimo, Stanislav Ioudenitch, Sofya Gulyak, Arie Vardi, Yoheved Kaplinsky and Peter Donohoe have additionally inspired her artistry. Ning Hui attained her MMus and BMus (Hons) with Distinction and First Class studying with John Byrne and Dmitri Alexeev. She also studied contemporary and film composition with Alison Kay and Francis Shaw. She received her PGAD with Distinction studying with Deniz Gelenbe and Sergio de Simone at the Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance. She is grateful for the support of Gylla Godwin, the Alfred Kitchin Scholarship and the Polonsky Foundation Fellowship in her artistic development.