Jiali Wang is an accomplished pianist with extensive experience as a soloist and collaborative musician. She is currently based in London, where she is pursuing doctoral research at the Royal Academy of Music , alongside holding a fellowship at the International Piano Academy of Lake Como.
Her performance work has taken her to major concert venues internationally, including Carnegie Hall in New York, Sun Yat-sen Memorial Hall in Beijing, and the Temppeliaukio Rock Church in Helsinki.
She was artist-in-residence at the Petworth Festival , presenting twelve performances across three days at the Petworth Proms. She has worked in concerto settings with conductors including Edward Gardner, Daniel Hogan, and José Luis López-Antón , and continues to perform regularly in recital and collaborative projects in the UK and abroad.
Jiali has won a number of major international prizes. She is the winner of the Edna Bralesford Piano Prize, the Royal Academy of Musics most prestigious award for instrumentalists graduating with the highest distinction. She has also won First Prizes at the Gershwin International Music Competition, the Málaga International Piano Competition, the Alion Baltic International Piano Competition, the Royal Academy of Music Piano Duo Competition, and the Harbin International Piano Festival Competition .
In 2022, she won the Harriet Cohen Bach Competition Prize in England, together with the Harold Samuel Special Prize, recognising her interpretation of early music .
Alongside her performance and research activity, Jiali has worked closely with a wide range of leading pianists and pedagogues. Her principal mentors include William Grant Naboré and Christopher Elton .
She has also regularly worked with artists such as Yevgeny Sudbin, Steven Osborne, Pascal Rogé, and Adrian Brendel . She has participated in advanced international training programmes including the International Holland Music Session with Boris Berman, and was a full- scholarship student at the Dartington International Summer School, led by Rolf Hind and Mahan Esfahani. In masterclass settings, she has collaborated with distinguished artists including Arie Vardi , Alexander Toradze, Fabio Bidini, Ian Hobson, Hung-Kuan Chen, Jerome Lowenthal, and Oxana Yablonskaya.