"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 (b. 1996) is a pianist recognised for her "refined touch, voluminous sound and an all-rounded musical personality" (The Straits Times). A Kris Foundation Artist, Ning Hui was born in Singapore and has been based in London since 2012. She has given concerts at London's 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 been invited to recitals at the Pallant House Gallery, The Venue at the Leeds College of Music, the Wells Cathedral School, and the Yehudi Menuhin School. She has also performed in France, Venice and Padua, Brussels, Gothenburg, Budapest, and the Harris Hall at Aspen, Colorado. Ning Hui 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 have been lauded for her passion, her sound and her mastery of various styles. Her performances have been featured on BBC Four, BBC Radio 3, and Singapore Symphony 92.4FM.
As a researcher, 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 practical and meaningful strategies towards the integration of lesser-known composers into concert repertoire and education. She has presented her research at conferences by the Royal Musical Association, the European Platform for Artistic Research, the Gender-Studien der Gesellschaft für Musikforschung (Hamburg), 'Women at the Piano' (Irvine, California), the Institute of Austrian and German Music Research (Surrey), and the Gender and Musicianship Study Days (Helsinki). Ning Hui is a C H Scholar working with Prof Rosie Perkins, Prof Natasha Loges and Danny Driver at the Royal College of Music London. She is also a Graduate Teaching Assistant for BMus 2 historical studies.
Earlier in her career, Ning Hui was a prizewinner of the "Citta di Padova" and Cesar Franck International Piano Competitions in Italy and Belgium, and was awarded the RCM Esther Fisher Prize for best undergraduate performance. She was a 2014 BBC Young Musician 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 (at NAFA-SYT) and Prof Albert Tiu. Masterclasses with Barry Douglas, Martino Tirimo, Stanislav Ioudenitch, Sofya Gulyak, Arie Vardi, Yoheved Kaplinsky and Peter Donohoe have additionally inspired her musicality. Ning Hui attained her BMus (Hons), MMus, and Artist Diploma with Distinctions while studying with John Byrne and Dmitri Alexeev at the RCM, and Deniz Gelenbe and Sergio de Simone at Trinity Laban. She is grateful for the support of Gylla Godwin, the Alfred Kitchin Scholarship and the Polonsky Foundation Fellowship in her artistic development.
As a researcher, 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 practical and meaningful strategies towards the integration of lesser-known composers into concert repertoire and education. She has presented her research at conferences by the Royal Musical Association, the European Platform for Artistic Research, the Gender-Studien der Gesellschaft für Musikforschung (Hamburg), 'Women at the Piano' (Irvine, California), the Institute of Austrian and German Music Research (Surrey), and the Gender and Musicianship Study Days (Helsinki). Ning Hui is a C H Scholar working with Prof Rosie Perkins, Prof Natasha Loges and Danny Driver at the Royal College of Music London. She is also a Graduate Teaching Assistant for BMus 2 historical studies.
Earlier in her career, Ning Hui was a prizewinner of the "Citta di Padova" and Cesar Franck International Piano Competitions in Italy and Belgium, and was awarded the RCM Esther Fisher Prize for best undergraduate performance. She was a 2014 BBC Young Musician 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 (at NAFA-SYT) and Prof Albert Tiu. Masterclasses with Barry Douglas, Martino Tirimo, Stanislav Ioudenitch, Sofya Gulyak, Arie Vardi, Yoheved Kaplinsky and Peter Donohoe have additionally inspired her musicality. Ning Hui attained her BMus (Hons), MMus, and Artist Diploma with Distinctions while studying with John Byrne and Dmitri Alexeev at the RCM, and Deniz Gelenbe and Sergio de Simone at Trinity Laban. She is grateful for the support of Gylla Godwin, the Alfred Kitchin Scholarship and the Polonsky Foundation Fellowship in her artistic development.
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)
