"an all-rounded musical personality...there was much to marvel at her grasp of the music's architecture and form."
- The Straits Times Singapore
Ning Hui See is a pianist recognised for her "refined touch, voluminous sound and an all-rounded musical personality" (The Straits Times). Born in 1996 in Singapore, she has been based in London since 2012, giving 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 appeared 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's performances have been featured on BBC Four, BBC Radio 3 and Symphony 92.4FM.
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 is an artist with Kris Foundation, Concordia Foundation and Talent Unlimited. She is grateful for the support of Gylla Godwin, the Alfred Kitchin Scholarship and the Polonsky Foundation Fellowship in her studies.
Ning Hui’s PhD research 'Constructing a Performance Strategy: Clara Wieck-Schumann’s Piano Sonata' concerns issues of gender, performance practice and the musical canon. She is supervised by Dr Natasha Loges and Geoffrey Govier at the Royal College of Music London, with the support of an RCM Studentship Award. Ning Hui attained her MMus and BMus (Hons) with Distinction and First Class studying with John Byrne and Dmitri Alexeev. She also studied contemporary composition with Alison Kay and film composition with 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. Ning Hui maintains a diverse teaching studio and has given a masterclass at her alma mater, the Raffles Girls' Secondary School in Singapore. She has presented as a guest speaker at the Overseas Masters Winter Piano Academy and the PGVIM International Symposium.
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 is an artist with Kris Foundation, Concordia Foundation and Talent Unlimited. She is grateful for the support of Gylla Godwin, the Alfred Kitchin Scholarship and the Polonsky Foundation Fellowship in her studies.
Ning Hui’s PhD research 'Constructing a Performance Strategy: Clara Wieck-Schumann’s Piano Sonata' concerns issues of gender, performance practice and the musical canon. She is supervised by Dr Natasha Loges and Geoffrey Govier at the Royal College of Music London, with the support of an RCM Studentship Award. Ning Hui attained her MMus and BMus (Hons) with Distinction and First Class studying with John Byrne and Dmitri Alexeev. She also studied contemporary composition with Alison Kay and film composition with 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. Ning Hui maintains a diverse teaching studio and has given a masterclass at her alma mater, the Raffles Girls' Secondary School in Singapore. She has presented as a guest speaker at the Overseas Masters Winter Piano Academy and the PGVIM International Symposium.
It was very interesting to hear the Clara Schumann Sonata.
Your playing in the first movement was deeply committed. Your reading of the score was
meticulously detailed and idiomatic. Characters were clearly etched and well-projected.
There was a very touching and eloquent quality in your playing of the second movement.
Your approach was understated but still warmly expressive. The concluding movements were again
wonderfully played, characterful, and musically enchanting.
You revealed yourself as an ideal advocate for this work.
- Aaron Shorr, UK concert pianist and professor (2018)