Dr. Ning Hui See (b. 1996) is a pianist-researcher recognised for her creative approach to music by underrepresented composers. Her homecoming concerts have been praised for her ‘refined touch, voluminous sound, and all-rounded musical personality’ (The Straits Times). Ning Hui has concertised throughout the UK, including the Steinway Hall, St James’s Piccadilly, Austrian Cultural Forum, and Victoria & Albert Museum in London, as well as the Leeds International Concert Series, Yehudi Menuhin School, and Pallant House Gallery. She has also performed in France, Belgium, Italy, Sweden, and the Harris Hall at Aspen, Colorado, and played as a soloist with the Orchestra di Padova e del Veneto, the Lydian Orchestra, and the Danube Symphony Orchestra. Her performances have been broadcast on BBC Four, BBC Radio 3, and Singapore Symphony 92.4FM. 2025-26 highlights include the SSO Chamber Series at the Victoria Concert Hall and her specially curated programme ‘ReSounding’ in Manila, London, and Singapore.

Ning Hui’s research interests include performance and pedagogical practices to integrate lesser-known repertoire, canonicity and value, as well as identity and agency. As a C H scholar supervised by Profs Rosie Perkins, Natasha Loges, and Danny Driver at the Royal College of Music London, Ning Hui’s PhD thesis (2024) examined ‘How Pianists Programme Lesser-known Solo Repertoire: An Autoethnography through Clara Schumann’s Sonata and Interviews with Four Pianists’. She has presented her research at international conferences held by the Royal Musical Association, European Platform for Artistic Research (AEC), Gender-Studien der Gesellschaft für Musikforschung (Hamburg), ‘Women at the Piano’ (Irvine, California), and Sibelius Academy (Helsinki). ​In her spare time, she writes programme notes for the Singapore Symphony Orchestra.

Ning Hui is presently an Adjunct Lecturer at the Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts (University of the Arts Singapore) for principal study piano, chamber music, and academics. Ning Hui was previously a Teaching Assistant at the RCM for BMus Historical Studies ‘History of the Orchestra’ and ‘Music and Power’ and gave guest seminars at the University of Freiburg and Duke University. Since 2013, she has maintained a private studio of diverse students, first in London, and now in Singapore and online. Her students’ achievements include prizes at the Stratford & East London, North London, and Woking Festivals, and offers to study at the RCM and RNCM.
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Earlier in her career, Ning Hui was a laureate of the ‘Citta di Padova’ and Cesar Franck International Piano Competitions, a 2014 BBC Young Musician keyboard finalist, and Grand Prize Winner of the 2012 Singapore Steinway Youth Competition. Entering the RCM aged 16, Ning Hui attained her BMus (Hons) with First Class and MMus with Distinction studying with John Byrne and Dmitri Alexeev. She won the Esther Fisher Prize for best undergraduate at the Chappell Gold Medal and was a finalist in all the major keyboard and concerto competitions at RCM. She later received her Artist Diploma with Distinction studying with Deniz Gelenbe and Sergio de Simone at Trinity Laban, where she was awarded the Founder’s Prize for best accompanist. Ning Hui experienced her early musical training at NAFA-SYT and studied privately with Prof Albert Tiu. Masterclasses with Barry Douglas, Sofya Gulyak, Arie Vardi, Yoheved Kaplinsky, and Peter Donohoe have further inspired her artistry.