Wan Jieni Jieni Wan

Jieni Wan was born in Germany on February 6, 1995. At the age of four, she received her first piano lessons and moved with her parents to China three years later. At age eleven, she was admitted to the Academy of Music in Shanghai and began her professional training in piano under the guidance of the famous Chinese professor Li Minduo. Two years later, she continued her studies at the Middle School of the Central Conservatory in Beijing. In June 2010, Jieni passed the entrance exam at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Munich with excellent marks and has been intensifying her piano studies under Professor Gitti Pirner, before joining Professor Antti Siirala’s class in October 2013.

Over the years, Jieni has received many prizes: she obtained her first award at the age of five in Ingolstadt, Germany, and won the first prize at Munich’s youth and children’s competition at Steinwayhaus in the following year. She also won several first prizes at Jugend Musiziert (Germany’s most prestigious music competition for youths) and at the 7th Munich International Piano Panel in 2007. In the same year she received an award for special achievement in art and music in Shanghai, as well as second prize at the international music and art competition for young people in the piano category. In 2008, she received first prize at the national Golden Sunflower Cup in the category Piano, followed by the award for best student majoring in piano at the Beijing Central Conservatory in 2009. In July 2010 she won first prize at the Third Kawai Asia Piano Competition and obtained the first prize at the national competition Jugend Musiziert in June 2011. 

Jieni Wan gave several concerts and tours. Amongst other venues she played in Munich’s famous Herkulessaaal, National centre for the performing arts in Beijing, Shanghai Concert hall, Shenzhen Concert hall and Wienersaal in Salzburg. Some of her highlights include her concert tours in 2014/15, when she was accompanied by the Beijing Symphony Orchestra under the supervision of conductor Tan Lihua in October and a month later by the Hunan Symphony Orchestra under Xiao Ming and the Neue Philharmonie München under Fuad Ibrahimov. In 2016 she played with Xu Zhong and the Orchestra del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino in Shanghai and with the Haifa Symphony Orchestra in Israel. In October 2016 she had two concerts with the World Master Orchestra under the supervision of Maestro Christoph Eschenbach in Shanghai and Hangzhou. In December she played with the NCPA Orchestra under Lv Jia.