Meet the Competitors MEI RUI USA • AGE 32 PROFESSIONAL TRAINING
Stony Brook University Yale School of Music COMPETITIONS & AWARDS
2012: San Antonio International Piano Competition, Best performance of a Classical Work 2009: Stony Brook Concerto Competition 2009, Winner 2003: William Waite Concerto Competition 2003, Winner 2000: Manhattan School of Music Concerto Competition, Winner 2000: Chopin Kosciuszko Foundation Competition, Third Prize
Pianist Mei Rui’s playing has been praised as “riveting,” full of “dramatic tension and lucidity” by the Boston Globe. Dr. Rui graduated from Yale, and holds
FIRST ROUND J.S. Bach
Fantasy and Fugue in A minor, BWV 904
Liszt
Années de pèlerinage Deuxième année: Italie
degrees in molecular biophysics and
Tarantella
biochemistry and music. While pursuing her D.M.A., she taught as Visiting Professor of Organic and General Chemistry at the City University of New York. In September 2013, Dr. Rui played to a sold-out audience with violinist Xiang Yu at the Louvre Museum in Paris, France.
SECOND ROUND Nathan
Three by Three (2009)
Ravel
Gaspard de la nuit: Trois poèmes d’après Aloysius Bertrand
Rachmaninoff
Prelude No. 12 in G-sharp minor, Op. 32
Scarbo Prelude No. 2 in B-flat major, Op. 23
She has appeared at Yellowbarn, Taos, and Norfolk, and has collaborated with Itzhak Perlman, George Manahan, Shinik
2015 COMPETITORS
Hahm, Paul Katz, and Roger Tapping. At age 11, she made her orchestral debut soloing with the Beijing Radio Symphony and has since played with
THIRD ROUND Schumann
Fantasie in C major, Op. 17
Hersch
Tenebrae (2010)
SEMIFINAL ROUND
the Beijing Radio Symphony, Shanghai
Beethoven
Philharmonic Orchestra, and the Yale
FINAL ROUND
Philharmonic. Recently she recorded Eric Nathan’s solo works to be released by
Rachmaninoff
Albany Records in 2015.
50 2015 CINCINNATI WORLD PIANO COMPETITION
Sonata No. 29 in B-flat major, Op. 106, Hammerklavier
Concerto No. 3 in D minor, Op. 30